reapers
Wielders of scythes
Reapers are people or machines that harvest crops, especially grain.
The word evokes agricultural labor before mechanization—workers cutting wheat with scythes.
The Grim Reaper personifies death as a hooded figure harvesting souls: The reaper comes for us all.
In science fiction, reapers often name apocalyptic machines or alien forces.
Manual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- sheavesBound clusters of stalks
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
wheat · barley · rye · oats · bundling · threshing · crop · fieldwork
Manual crop-cutting implement
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- cloakSleeveless outer wrap
- hourglassGravity-powered sand timer
- mortalityState of eventual death
soul · afterlife · specter · personification · doom · fate · judgment · underworld
scythe
Manual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- sheavesBound clusters of stalks
grain · wheat · barley · rye · oats · bundling · threshing · crop · fieldwork · sowing
scythe
Manual crop-cutting implement
mortality · soul · afterlife · specter · personification · doom · fate · judgment · underworld · Hades
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
ghostly · phantom · haunt · dark · sinister · dread · shadow · skull · tombstone · graveyard
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
- threshing machineGrain-stalk separation apparatus
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
baler · swather · windrower · mechanization · diesel · farmhand · header · grain bin · auger · chaff
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- death loredeath rituals, burial rites, burial customs, wakes, death knells
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- Gothicgargoyle, gothic fiction, pointed arch, gothic architecture, flying buttress
- destroyersdestroyers, guided missile, torpedo tubes, hull, stern
- night terrorsnightmares, bogeymen, sleep paralysis, ghosts, phantoms
reaperssowers
Those who scatter seeds
planters · seeders · cultivators · tillers · growers
reaperscreators
Ones who originate
nurturers · midwives · healers · saviors · preservers
- Grim ReaperSkeletal embodiment of mortality
- Carolina ReaperCultivar of extreme capsaicin
- reaped the rewards
- reaped the whirlwindSuffered severe consequences of wrongdoing
- reaped what one sowedSuffered self-caused results
- reaper droneArmed unmanned military aircraft