Usually means: Harvester of souls, grim figure.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaper: Merriam-Webster
  2. reaper, the Reaper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reaper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reaper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Reaper, reaper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reaper, reaper: Wordnik
  7. reaper: Wiktionary
  8. reaper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. reaper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. reaper: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Reaper, reaper: Dictionary.com
  12. reaper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. Reaper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. reaper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. reaper: Rhymezone
  17. Reaper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. reaper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. reaper: FreeDictionary.org
  20. reaper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. The Reaper, reaper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaper: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Reaper, reaper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. The Reaper, reaper: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reaper: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. reaper: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
noun:  A machine used to harvest crops.
noun:  A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
noun:  (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
noun:  (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. [A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.]

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