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A reaper is someone (or a machine) that reaps — that is, cuts and gathers a crop like wheat at harvest time. Most people today actually know the word from 'the Grim Reaper', the , skeleton-like figure often shown carrying a large curved blade, who represents death in stories and art.
收割者、收割機；(the Grim Reaper) 死神
組成reap + -er (one who does the action)
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
reapernoun詞源 1/ˈɹiːpɚ/
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One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
- Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
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A machine used to harvest crops.
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A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
reapernoun詞源 2/ˈɹiːpɚ/
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obsoleteEach of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。