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reacher

noun

Etymology

A contraction of Richard.

  1. derived from *Hreyǵ-✻ — “to bind, reach”
  2. inherited from *raikijaną✻
  3. inherited from *raikijan✻
  4. inherited from rǣċan — “to reach”
  5. inherited from rechen
  6. suffixed as reacher — “reach + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who reaches.

    • In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.

  2. A device used to reach something.

  3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.

    • Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An exaggeration

      • I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright"

    2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

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