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单词 reaper
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Definition of reaper in English:

reaper

noun ˈriːpəˈripər
  • 1A person or machine that harvests a crop.

    收割者;收割机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dance themes deal with relations between men and women as well as particular occupations such as the dances of reapers, cobblers, coopers, and smiths.
    • During 1878 one local factory employed thirty-five people and produced hundreds of ploughs and numerous harrows, reapers and scarifiers for the farmers.
    • He began by repairing bicycles and agricultural machines and also manufacturing cutters and reapers.
    • The mechanical reaper and later improvements created a huge United States market for binding twine.
    • Both of them were on the edge of the reaper's scythe that morning, and surely their luck could not take them too far.
    • Perhaps the reapers could help throw her pursuers further off her track.
    • Earlier in the year they had grown barley, cut it with a reaper and binder and had it all in sheafs.
    • Here the grass crops are more traditional and thinner, so these reapers work well.
    • Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the mechanical reaper had as significant an impact on American society as any other invention in the country's history.
    • And she sat down beside the reapers; and he reached her parched corn and she ate and was sufficed and left.
    • In 1831, he took up the project his father had pursued unsuccessfully for twenty years: building a reaper to speed the harvesting of small grains.
    • As part of our calling to family practice, we like to encourage our patients to be planters as well as reapers of the harvest that grows in each community.
    • Immigration and use of farm machines was expanded - to horse-powered cultivators, mowers, and reapers - to resolve the dilemma.
    • The reapers gave out a group sigh of relief and loosened their grip slightly looking to John for instruction.
    • However, it was not until the mid-19th century that agricultural machinery, for example the reaper and the traction-engine, began to be adopted by farmers.
    • These machines were known as sail reapers and came out about 1850.
    • He saw the priest hacked with reapers and grain tools.
    • You are the reapers of the dream envisioned by your parents and grandparents.
    • A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.
    • In an ideal world, shepherds have plenty of meat, and even reapers share in the royal ox-roast portrayed on Achilles' shield.
    1. 1.1
      short for the grim Reaper at grim
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Reaper's Law: Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
      • But you may be a little alarmed by the photographs because surely, you're thinking, the car in question is an instrument of Satan, the Reaper's scythe.
      • Later on, of course, he had to pay the reaper, give up his high flying Rock ‘n’ Roll life style, put the demon alcohol behind him and take up golf, but that's another avenue we can descend down on another trip.
      • He may be staring down 60 but he's determined to outdance the Reaper.
      • It just didn't seem to me (perhaps after my Grosvenor Road experience) that the Reaper was in any hurry to make my acquaintance.
      • Kouru stumbled backwards and thought about committing ritual suicide but then remembered that her sword was a wooden one, she instead resigned herself to just collapse and await the reaper.
      • The Reaper has come knocking at least five times over the last 72 years, but every time the author has sent him packing.
      • You probably racked up a decent score before your date with the Reaper.
      • And he's known to leave his opponents to the reaper.

Rhymes

Arequipa, beeper, bleeper, creeper, Dnieper, keeper, leaper, peeper, sleeper, sweeper, weeper

Definition of reaper in US English:

reaper

nounˈrēpərˈripər
  • 1A person or machine that harvests a crop.

    收割者;收割机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1831, he took up the project his father had pursued unsuccessfully for twenty years: building a reaper to speed the harvesting of small grains.
    • Earlier in the year they had grown barley, cut it with a reaper and binder and had it all in sheafs.
    • As part of our calling to family practice, we like to encourage our patients to be planters as well as reapers of the harvest that grows in each community.
    • In an ideal world, shepherds have plenty of meat, and even reapers share in the royal ox-roast portrayed on Achilles' shield.
    • He began by repairing bicycles and agricultural machines and also manufacturing cutters and reapers.
    • Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the mechanical reaper had as significant an impact on American society as any other invention in the country's history.
    • You are the reapers of the dream envisioned by your parents and grandparents.
    • Here the grass crops are more traditional and thinner, so these reapers work well.
    • Both of them were on the edge of the reaper's scythe that morning, and surely their luck could not take them too far.
    • A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.
    • However, it was not until the mid-19th century that agricultural machinery, for example the reaper and the traction-engine, began to be adopted by farmers.
    • These machines were known as sail reapers and came out about 1850.
    • And she sat down beside the reapers; and he reached her parched corn and she ate and was sufficed and left.
    • Perhaps the reapers could help throw her pursuers further off her track.
    • He saw the priest hacked with reapers and grain tools.
    • Dance themes deal with relations between men and women as well as particular occupations such as the dances of reapers, cobblers, coopers, and smiths.
    • The reapers gave out a group sigh of relief and loosened their grip slightly looking to John for instruction.
    • During 1878 one local factory employed thirty-five people and produced hundreds of ploughs and numerous harrows, reapers and scarifiers for the farmers.
    • Immigration and use of farm machines was expanded - to horse-powered cultivators, mowers, and reapers - to resolve the dilemma.
    • The mechanical reaper and later improvements created a huge United States market for binding twine.
    1. 1.1the Reaper
      short for Grim Reaper
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Kouru stumbled backwards and thought about committing ritual suicide but then remembered that her sword was a wooden one, she instead resigned herself to just collapse and await the reaper.
      • And he's known to leave his opponents to the reaper.
      • It just didn't seem to me (perhaps after my Grosvenor Road experience) that the Reaper was in any hurry to make my acquaintance.
      • Later on, of course, he had to pay the reaper, give up his high flying Rock ‘n’ Roll life style, put the demon alcohol behind him and take up golf, but that's another avenue we can descend down on another trip.
      • You probably racked up a decent score before your date with the Reaper.
      • But you may be a little alarmed by the photographs because surely, you're thinking, the car in question is an instrument of Satan, the Reaper's scythe.
      • The Reaper has come knocking at least five times over the last 72 years, but every time the author has sent him packing.
      • The Reaper's Law: Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
      • He may be staring down 60 but he's determined to outdance the Reaper.
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