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Webster 1913 Edition

(-ẽr)

Noun.

One who reaches.

An exaggeration.

[Obs.]

Fuller.

Noun.

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

See also: reacher

Reacher

See also: Reacher

reacher ‎(plural reachers)

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.
A device used to reach something.
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.
(obsolete) An exaggeration.
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