reaper

Grim cloaked collector

A reaper is a person or machine that harvests grain or other crops by cutting them down.

The word appears in grim reaper, the skeletal, scythe-wielding personification of death who harvests souls as a farmer harvests wheat.

Outside agriculture and death imagery, reaper occasionally describes anyone who collects consequences: a reaper of rewards, a reaper of what was sown.

harvester

combine

Merge, or harvesting machine

threshingExtracting grain from stalks
scytheManual crop-cutting implement
sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade

binder · swather · crop · grain · wheat · barley · oats · rye · corn · soybean

agricultural

farming

Cultivating land for food

cultivationFostering growth through care
husbandryFarm management practice
agronomyCrop and soil science

tillage · sowing · planting · crop · field · plow · furrow · season · yield · granary

mythology

Charon

Mythical underworld ferryman

HadesGreek afterlife realm
AnubisEgyptian mortuary deity
underworldRealm of the departed

Styx · Azrael · Osiris · valkyrie · Fates · Acheron · Elysium · Tartarus · afterlife · eternity

death

scythe

Manual crop-cutting implement

hoodedHaving a fabric headpiece
shroudBurial cloth or covering
soulInnermost animating essence

demise · deceased · funeral · mourning · cemetery · tombstone · corpse · coffin · grave · specter

reaper

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farming

Charon

scythe

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