reacher English
Noun
( en noun)
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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( Webster 1913)
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