Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which reaches, or is capable of or serves for reaching.
- n. An exaggeration; a “stretcher.”
- n. One who reaches warp-threads to another (the drawer-in), to be drawn through the heddles and reed, in making ready for the loom.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who reaches
- n. A device used to reach something
- n. obsolete An exaggeration.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who reaches.
- n. obsolete An exaggeration.
Examples
“Yes, the word reacher has multiple meanings for me.”
“Putting aside the entire question of whether a "reacher" device is more effective than a service dog, there is no device that substitutes for a walker dog.”
Mark Kleiman: Why won't the VA provide service dogs for wounded warriors?
“Marian had a homemade "reacher" consisting of a dowel stick with an L-screw attached to one end.”
“Another friend suggested a "reacher" for her, so I got her one today, and she laughed and said that she'd been wondering about getting herself one.”
“Maria loves to clean, so she uses a long tool the girls call a "reacher" to pick up things.”
“I got this question once in the hills of Griffith Park, in reference to my E-Z reacher.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Olmsted: Top 10 Reactions to My Trashwhispering
“Minute later she raps on the bedroom door with something -- probably her reacher.”
“He has also designed a reacher that extends a person's reach so they can grasp things from the floor or from a shelf.”
The Huffington Post: Rosina Samadani: Is Michael Graves the James Dyson of Healthcare?
“Frankly speaking, I am not so much happy that I have learned something about the Middle Ages as I am happy that my knowledge about Westeros is now much reacher.”
“I have heard people say that in every relationship there is a reacher and a settler.”
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