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REAPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

Synonyms:

harvester; reaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("reaper" is a kind of...):

farm machine (a machine used in farming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reaper"):

binder; reaper binder (a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves)

combine (harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field)

header (a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon)

Derivation:

reap (gather, as of natural products)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe

Synonyms:

Grim Reaper; Reaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Death (the personification of death)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who helps to gather the harvest

Synonyms:

harvester; reaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("reaper" is a kind of...):

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reaper"):

vintager (a person who harvests grapes for making wine)

Derivation:

reap (gather, as of natural products)

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