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Definition: Reaper |
ReaperNoun1. Someone who helps to gather the harvest. 2. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe. 3. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reaper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Reaper n. A prowler that GFRs files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that reaps and separates grain. It is based on the threshing machine and the reaper.
Early combines, some of them quite large, were drawn by mule teams and used a bull wheel to provide mechanical power. Tractor-drawn, PTO-powered combines were used for a time. Today's combines are self-propelled and use diesel engines for power.
Combines are equipped with removable heads that are designed for particular crops. The standard head, sometimes called a grain platform, is equipped with a sickle bar mower, and features a revolving reel with metal or plastic teeth to cause the cut crop to fall into the head. A cross auger then pulls the crop into the throat. The grain platform is used for many crops, including grain, legumes, and many seed crops.
Wheat heads are similar except that the reel is not equipped with teeth. Some wheat heads, called "draper" heads, use a fabric or rubber apron instead of a cross auger. Draper heads keep the crop orientation uniform, feeding grain headfirst into the throat, which allows slightly more efficient threshing.
Dummy heads feature spring-tined pickups, usually attached to a heavy rubber belt. They are used for crops that have already been cut and placed in windrows.
While a grain platform can be used for corn, a specialized corn head is ordinarily used instead. The corn head is equipped with snap rolls that strip the stalk and leaf away from the ear, so that only the ear (and husk) enter the throat. This improves efficiency dramatically since so much less material must go through the cylinder. The corn head can be recognized by the presence of points between each row.
Occasionally rowcrop heads are seen that function like a grain platform, but have points between rows like a corn head. These are used to reduce the amount of weed seed picked up when harvesting small grains.
External link
- Pictures of combines with corn and wheat heads
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Combine."
Synonyms: ReaperSynonyms: grim reaper (n), harvester (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reaper |
| English words defined with "reaper": Harvest lord ♦ Sickleman, Sickler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reaper": GFR, Grim File Reaper ♦ PIE. (references) |
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Screenplays | I am no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than a protestant on Mother's Day. (The Life of David Gale; writing credit: Charles Randolph) Crappy, ineffective Reaper (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) In your face Grim Reaper! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Is the grisly reaper mowing (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl. Based on the novel 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl.) Say, can you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper (Chrono Trigger; writing credit: Yuji Horii; Masato Kato) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Romance of the Reaper (1930) Reaper (1998) Grim Reaper (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Caption: Rendering of Aultman Miller Co., Lewis Miller's Company, Showing the Reaper Manufactured There; Unknown Date; {14.340/45} (jpg). |  | Grim reaper against red sunset. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Man playing chess with grim reaper. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reaper, profile. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reaper, midship section. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reaper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reaper, July 28, 1892. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Picking up corn after the reaper has finished. Member farm near Coxsackie, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Put put" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "The grim reaper takes a swing at Graveyard Put. a mini golf course on Queensland's North Coast. ." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The labourer, the reaper, the sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in the light like the blessed in a paradise |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
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| "Reaper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Reaper" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "reaper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Reaper | Last name | 1,000 | 15,070 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "reaper": grim File Reaper ♦ grim reaper ♦ reaper binder ♦ the grim reaper ♦ the reaper. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "reaper": reaper-and-binder, reaper-binder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "reaper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | makinë korrëse (harvester, reaping-machine), korrëse, korrës (cropper, harvester). (various references) | |
Arabic | حصادة (combine harvester), حصاد (cutting, gathering, harvest, harvester, harvesting), حاصدة (harvester). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | символ на смъртта, комбайн (combine, harvester-combine, reaping-machine), жътварка (harvester, reaping-machine), жътвар (harvester). (various references) | |
Chinese | 收割者 . (various references) | |
Czech | sekaèka, žnec (harvester, mower), žací stroj (mower, mowing machine, reaping-machine, self-binder). (various references) | |
Danish | slåmaskine (mower, mowing machine), mejer (harvester, mower, mowing machine), mejemaskine (mower, mowing machine, reaping machine), hoestmaskine (mower, mowing machine), hoestmand (harvester, mower), høstkarl (harvester, mower, mowing machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | zeis (scythe), oogstwerktuig (harvester, mower), maaier (harvester, mower, mowing machine). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماشین درو, دروگر. (various references) | |
Finnish | ruohonleikkuukone (harvester, mower, mowing machine), ruohonleikkuri (harvester, mower, mowing machine), niittokone (mower, mowing machine), niittäjä (harvester, mower), leikkuumies (harvester), leikkaaja (cutter, editor). (various references) | |
French | moissonneur, faucheuse. (various references) | |
German | Mäher (mower), Schnitter (harvester, mower). (various references) | |
Greek | θεριστική μηχανή (harvester, reaping machine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקצרה (combine harvester, grasscutter, harvester, lawn mower, mower), קוצר (harvester), כורת (cutter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kaszálógép (mower, mowing machine), kaszáló munkás, aratógép (combine, harvester, reaping-machine), arató munkás. (various references) | |
Italian | mietitore (harvester, mower), falciatore (haymaker, mower). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 刈り手 (mower). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かりて (borrower, debtor, mower, tenant). (various references) | |
Manx | meillagh (labial, lip), greie buinnee, folder, buinneyder (harvester, mower), beayney (of a reaper), beaynee (harvester, mower). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaperray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | segador (reaping-machine), ceifeiro (harvester, mower, reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Romanian | secerãtor (harvester, harvesting, mower, reaping), secerãtoare (cropper, harvester, mower), culegãtor (compositor, cropper, picker, type setter), cosaş (grasshopper, grass-mower, harvester, haymaker, mower, scytheman). (various references) | |
Russian | жнец (harvester), жатка (reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žetelac (cropper, harvester). (various references) | |
Spanish | segador (harvester, mower), segadora (mowing machine, reaping-aggregate, reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Swedish | skördemaskin (harvester, reaping-machine), skördeman (harvestman), skördearbetare (harvester, mower). (various references) | |
Turkish | orakçı (harvester, mower, shearer), biçerdöver (combine harvester, combineharvester, harvester, harvester thresher). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жнець (cropper, harvester), жатка (reaping-aggregate, reaping-machine). (various references) | |
Welsh | medelwr, crymanwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | messor, messorem, messores, messoribus, messorum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Amos Chapter 9, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Idou hmerai ercontai legei kurioV kai katalhmyetai o alohtoV ton trughton kai perkasei h stafulh en tw sporw kai apostalaxei ta orh glukasmon kai panteV oi bounoi sumfutoi esontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ecce dies veniunt dicit Dominus et conprehendet arator messorem et calcator uvae mittentem semen et stillabunt montes dulcedinem et omnes colles culti erunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Loo! days cummen, saith the Lord, and the erer shal cacche the reper, and treder of grape the man sendynge seed; and mounteyns shuln droppe swetnesse, and alle smale hyllis shuln be tiliyid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine. |
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| Language | Amos Chapter 9, Verse 13 |
| Albanian | "Ja, ditët po vijnë", thotë Zoti, "kur ai që lëron do t'i afrohet atij që korr dhe ai që shtrydh rrushin atij që hedh farën; atëherë malet do të kullojnë musht, që do të rrjedhë poshtë nëpër kodra. |
| Cebuano | Ania karon, ang mga adlaw moabut na, nagaingon si Jehova, nga ang magdadaro makaapas sa mag-aani, ug ang manggigiuk sa mga parras, makaapas kaniya nga nagasabud sa binhi; ug mga bukid magapatulo sa matam-is nga vino, ug ang tanang bungtod mangatunaw. |
| Croatian | "Evo dolaze dani - rijeè je Jahvina - kada æe oraè stizat' žeteoca, mastilac grožða sijaèa, kad æe planine procuriti mladim vinom i svi se bregovi prelijevati njime. |
| Danish | Se, Dage skal komme, lyder det fra HERREN, da Plovmand følger Høstmand i Hælene og Drueperser Sædemand, da Bjergene drypper med Most og alle Høje flyder. |
| Dutch | Ziet, de dagen komen, spreekt de HEERE, dat de ploeger den maaier, en de druiventreder den zaadzaaier genaken zal; en de bergen zullen van zoeten wijn druipen, en al de heuvelen zullen smelten. |
| Finnish | Katso, päivät tulevat, sanoo Herra, jolloin kyntäjä tavoittaa leikkaajan ja rypäleitten polkija siemenenkylväjän, jolloin vuoret tiukkuvat rypälemehua ja kaikki kukkulat kuohkeiksi muuttuvat. |
| German | Siehe, es kommt die Zeit, spricht der HERR, daß man zugleich ackern und ernten und zugleich keltern und säen wird; und die Berge werden von süßem Wein triefen, und alle Hügel werden fruchtbar sein. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN berkata, "Akan tiba waktunya gandum tumbuh begitu cepat sehingga musim menuai tak ada putus-putusnya. Pohon anggur akan tumbuh sangat pesat sehingga orang akan terus-menerus membuat air anggur. Air anggur akan menetes dari gunung-gunung dan mengalir dari bukit-bukit. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwasanya hari akan datang, demikianlah firman Tuhan, apabila orang penenggala akan mengganti orang penyabit dan orang pengapit air anggur mengganti orang penabur biji-bijian, dan segala gunung akan bertiriskan air anggur manis dan segala bukitpun akan berkelimpahan. |
| Maori | Nana, kei te haere mai nga ra, e ai ta Ihowa, e mau ai te kaikokoti i te kaiparau, e mau ai hoki te kaiwhakato purapura i te kaitakahi karepe; ka maturuturu ano te waina hou o nga maunga, a ka rewa nga pukepuke katoa. |
| Norwegian | Se, dager kommer, sier Herren, da den som pløier, skal nå den som høster, og den som trår vindruer, skal nå den som kaster ut sæden, og fjellene skal dryppe av most, og alle haugene skal flyte over. |
| Portuguese | Eis que vêm os dias, diz o Senhor, em que o que lavra alcançará ao que sega, e o que pisa as uvas ao que lança a semente; :e os montes destilarão mosto, e todos os outeiros se derreterão. |
| Rumanian | ,,Iatq, vin zile, zice Domnul, cknd plugarul va ajunge pe secerqtor, wi cel ce calcq strugurii pe cel ce kmprqwtie sqmknya, cknd mustul va picura din munyi wi va curge de pe toate dealurile. |
| Russian | чПФ, ОБУФХРСФ ДОЙ, ЗПЧПТЙФ зПУРПДШ, ЛПЗДБ РБИБТШ ЪБУФБОЕФ ЕЭЕ ЦОЕГБ, Б ФПРЮХЭЙК ЧЙОПЗТБД--УЕСФЕМС; Й ЗПТЩ ЙУФПЮБФШ ВХДХФ ЧЙОПЗТБДОЩК УПЛ, Й ЧУЕ ИПМНЩ РПФЕЛХФ. |
| Spanish | "He aquí que vienen días, dice Jehovah, cuando el que ara alcanzará al que siega, y el que pisa las uvas al que lleva la semilla; las montañas gotearán vino nuevo, y todas las colinas se derretirán. |
| Swedish | Se, dagar skola komma, säger HERREN, då plöjaren skall följa skördemannen i spåren, och druvtramparen såningsmannen, då bergen skola drypa av druvsaft och alla höjder skola försmälta. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reaper": reapers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reaper": threaper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reaper": threapers. (additional references) | |
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"Reaper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: breaper, Grenappe, raeker, Raeper, Ranakpur, rapere, reape, rearer, Reaser, reeper, repaer, repar, repare, reparer, repear, repere, repr, repre, respeer, reupe, Rieper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reaper" (pronounced rē"per) |
| 3 | -ē" p er | beeper, cheaper, deeper, keeper, sleeper, steeper, sweeper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: parer, perea, raper. | |
-2 letters: aper, pare, parr, pear, peer, pree, rape, rare, reap, rear. | |
-3 letters: ape, are, ear, era, ere, err, par, pea, pee, per, rap, ree, rep. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: caperer, paperer, pearler, pearter, preaver, prepare, prerace, reapers, repaper, spearer, taperer. | |
+2 letters: aperture, asperser, caperers, dapperer, depraver, hamperer, palterer, pamperer, panderer, paperers, parcener, parleyer, parterre, patterer, pearlers, pearlier, perorate, pervader, preacher, prearmed, preavers, preclear, prefacer, prepared, preparer, prepares, prerenal, presager, pretreat, rapiered, rapparee, rareripe, reappear, recarpet, relapser, repaired, repairer, repapers, reparked, repartee, repealer, repeater, rephrase, replacer, rerepeat, reshaper, respread, revamper, spearers, spreader, tamperer, taperers, threaper, upbearer, upreared. | |
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