Definition of "reaper" in English

noun

1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

2. A machine used to harvest crops.

3. (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.

4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

noun

1. (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.