Reaperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (American English) IPA: /ˈɹiːpɚ/
• 韻: -iːpə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from 古期英語 rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap +‎ -er.

名詞

reaper (plural reapers)

1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.

2. A machine used to harvest crops.
3. (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31:

     Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”

   • 1976, Buck Dharma, “Don't Fear the Reaper”, performed by Blue Öyster Cult:

     Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly

   • 1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature, page 7:

     Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.

   • 2014, “Graveyard Shift”, performed by The Acacia Strain:

     She told me she wanted to meet the reaper
     I had only done her a favor
     She didn't deserve to die
     But I deserved to kill her

4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

派生語

関連する語

• reap

語源 2

名詞

reaper (plural reapers)

1. (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “reaper”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

アナグラム

• Pearre, Perera, rerape