reaper

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːpɚ/

The English word “reaper” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
A machine used to harvest crops.
A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

Etymology

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.

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