reacher

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English

Etymology

From reach +‎ -er.

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

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

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