1. people who harvest crops, especially grain
2. machines used to cut and gather crops
3. personifications of death, often depicted carrying scythes
Usage: figurative; mythology

Examples

• The reapers worked from dawn to dusk during harvest season.
• Modern reapers can harvest hundreds of acres in a single day.
• The farmer hired additional reapers to help with the wheat harvest.
• Mechanical reapers revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century.
• In folklore, reapers are often portrayed as hooded figures.
• The field was full of reapers gathering the golden grain.
• Ancient reapers used sickles and scythes to cut crops by hand.