English Dictionary

reacher

noun

A person who reaches. / A device used to reach something. / A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker. / (obsolete) An exaggeration.

The reacher climbed to the top of the mountain.

意味（1）

A person who reaches.

In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.

意味（2）

A device used to reach something.

意味（3）

A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.

Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.

意味（4）

(obsolete) An exaggeration.

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"