reaper

noun

1. 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.”

2. A machine used to harvest crops.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, ellipsis, often)Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.

   “Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?””

   “Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly”

   “Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.”

   “She told me she wanted to meet the reaper I had only done her a favor She didn't deserve to die But I deserved to kill her”

4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
5. (India, obsolete)Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.