reaper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reaper	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for reaper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reaper n someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester, reaper] Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe Synonym(s): Grim Reaper, Reaper farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields Synonym(s): harvester, reaper
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reaper \Reap"er\, n. 1. One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. --Macaulay. 2. A reaping machine.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
reaper A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been "reaped". [{Jargon File}]