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The noun reaper refers to a person who harvests crops. If your part-time job involves harvesting corn by hand, then you're a reaper. Reaper can also refer to a piece of farm equipment used to harvest crops, especially grains. | The noun reaper refers to a person who harvests crops. If your part-time job involves harvesting corn by hand, then you're a reaper. Reaper can also refer to a piece of farm equipment used to harvest crops, especially grains. | ||
| − | It's not a coincidence that reap looks a lot like the word ripe. When the crops are ripe — in Old English, "ready for reaping, fit for eating" — a reaper, either human or mechanical, can harvest them. Reap means "to cut grain with a hook or sickle." This might remind you of the Grim Reaper, the personification of death in art, movies, and stories, who is shown carrying a sickle and is said to be the harvester of souls. | + | |
| + | It's not a coincidence that reap looks a lot like the word ripe. When the crops are ripe — in Old English, "ready for reaping, fit for eating" — a reaper, either human or mechanical, can harvest them. Reap means "to cut grain with a hook or sickle." This might remind you of the Grim Reaper, the personification of death in art, movies, and stories, who is shown carrying a sickle and is said to be the harvester of souls. | ||
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Жнець, женця, зв. женче, м. Жнець. Ой. на горі та женці жнуть. Макс. 105. Ум. Женчик. Наша пані пишна проти женчиків вийшла. Чуб. ІІІ. 234.
Сучасні словники
Словник української мови: в 11 томах. — Том 2, 1971. — Стор. 538.
ЖНЕЦЬ, женця, чол. Той, хто жне хлібні рослини. Всі женці стояли мовчки; в їх руках наче заклякли жмені жита та серпи (Нечуй-Левицький, II, 1956, 186); — У Кирила золоті руки! Він і швець, і жнець, і в дуду грець... (Олександр Копиленко, Хата хлопчика.., 1957, 4).
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Іноземний словник
reaper
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
Synonyms:
* harvester
Types:
* vintager
a person who harvests grapes for making wine
Type of:
- farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand, a hired hand on a farm
The noun reaper refers to a person who harvests crops. If your part-time job involves harvesting corn by hand, then you're a reaper. Reaper can also refer to a piece of farm equipment used to harvest crops, especially grains.
It's not a coincidence that reap looks a lot like the word ripe. When the crops are ripe — in Old English, "ready for reaping, fit for eating" — a reaper, either human or mechanical, can harvest them. Reap means "to cut grain with a hook or sickle." This might remind you of the Grim Reaper, the personification of death in art, movies, and stories, who is shown carrying a sickle and is said to be the harvester of souls.
