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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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reaper
n : someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: {harvester}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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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