different between peacher vs reacher

English

peach +? -er

peacher (plural peachers)

(dated) One who peaches or informs on another; an informer.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

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"

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