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.

(Fuller)

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Extra iocum , I like your Dreames passingly well; and the rather, bicause they sauour of that singular extraordinarie veine and inuention whiche I euer fancied moste, and in a manner admired onelye in Lucian, Petrarche, Aretine, Pasquill, and all the most delicate and fine conceited Grecians and Italians, (for the Romanes to speake of are but verye ciphars in this kinde,) whose chiefest endeuour and drifte was to haue nothing vulgare, but, in some respecte or other, and especially in liuely hyperbolicall amplifications, rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and, as a man woulde saye, a degree or two, at the leaste, aboue the reache and compasse of a common scholars capacitie. }}