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One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay.

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

s insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest…

The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.

s and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. Dryden.

A reaper. [Scot.] Jamieson.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper. You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

orange and the green. Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. Chaucer. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. Milton. The line of yellow light dies fast away. Keble. Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degenerat…