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# reaper

«reaper» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who cuts and gathers a crop such as wheat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a reaper, reapers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who cuts and gathers a crop such as wheat (old-fashioned). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#m1)

2) A machine that cuts grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#m2)

3) «The Grim Reaper» is a picture of death as a skeleton in a black cloak carrying a scythe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In farming history: reapers cut wheat with sickles and scythes at harvest; later the reaping machine (McCormick's reaper) did the work. In the Bible, «you reap what you sow» means your actions bring their results. The Grim Reaper appears in stories and Halloween costumes.

### examples

- The reapers worked in the field all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x1)
- The old reaper was pulled by horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x2)
- A reaping machine cuts wheat faster than people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x3)
- The Grim Reaper carries a scythe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x4)
- Harvest songs were sung by the reapers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x5)
- The Bible says that whatever we sow, we will reap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x6)
- The Master Cat, who still went on before, met with some reapers, and said to them: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/#x7)

### note

From «reap» (to cut and gather a crop). «Reap» also means to get a result: «reap the benefits». The Grim Reaper is a symbol, not a real person.

### In the corpora

- [And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.97/)
- [Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2416/)
- [Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers: 'Whose damsel is this?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reaper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reaper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.