reacher
See also: Reacher
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]reacher (plural reachers)
- 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.
- A device used to reach something.
- (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.
- (obsolete) An exaggeration[1]
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- 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"
References
[edit]- ^ “reacher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.