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reaper


  4  definitions  found 
 
  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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