different between exaggeration vs reacher

English

From Latin exaggeratio

exaggeration (countable and uncountable, plural exaggerations)

The act of heaping or piling up.
The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

reach +? -er

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.
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.
- 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"

Send