reacher

See also: Reacher

English

Etymology

reach +‎ -er

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

  1. 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.
  2. A device used to reach something.
  3. (nautical) 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.
  4. (obsolete) An exaggeration[1]
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      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"
      The spelling has been modernized.

References
  1. “reacher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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