reaper

Meanings

1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
2. A machine used to harvest crops.
3. Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

1. Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

Etymology

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.