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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reaper \Reap"er\ (r[=e]p"[~e]r), noun
1. One who reaps.
The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. --Macaulay.
2. A reaping machine.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reaper
noun
1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: {harvester}]
2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe [syn: {Grim Reaper}]
3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn: {harvester}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "reaper": Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
reaper n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been 'reaped'.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
reaper A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been "reaped". [{Jargon File}]
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