reaper
pronunciation
How to pronounce reaper in British English:
UK [ˈri:pə(r)]
How to pronounce reaper in American English:
US [ˈripɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
Word Origin
- reaper (n.)
- Old English ripere, agent noun from reap (v.). As the name of a personification of death, from 1839.
Example
- 1. Turkey wants more from its american friends , including cobra attack helicopters and armed reaper drones .
- 2. It can reach speeds of up to 530 mph , farfaster than its spindly predecessors , the predator and reaper .
- 3. Ground controllers picked an unpopulated area over northern afghanistan and the jet fired a sidewinder missile , destroying the reaper 's turbo-prop engine .
- 4. In the air in iraq and afghanistan , unmanned aircraft with names like predator , reaper , raven and global hawk have kept countless soldiers from flying sorties .
- 5. Equipped with advanced radar and sophisticated cameras , as well as hellfire missiles and 500-pound bombs , the reaper had lost its satellite link to a pilot who was remotely steering the drone from a base in the united states .