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Webster 1913 Edition


Reacher

Reach′er

(-ẽr)
,
Noun.
1.
One who reaches.
2.
An exaggeration.
[Obs.]
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reacher

RE'ACHER

,
Noun.
One that reaches or extends; one that delivers by extending the arm.

Definition 2024


Reacher

Reacher

See also: reacher

English

Proper noun

Reacher

  1. A patronymic surname.

reacher

reacher

See also: Reacher

English

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. 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)