Reacher
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reacher is a noun meaning A person who reaches.
Meaning
A person who reaches.
More Meanings
- A device used to reach something.
- (nautical) A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
- (obsolete) An exaggeration
Example Sentences
In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.
Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.
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"
Word Forms
- reachers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include attainer, reproacher, retriever, grabber, grabbler, approacher.
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