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reacher en · NOUN

Etymology

From reach + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who reaches.
   • In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it. 1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance, page 17:
2. A device used to reach something.
3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
   • Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers. 2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay:
4. (obsolete) An exaggeration
   • I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright" 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

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