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reacher
English
Etymology
reach +? -er
Noun
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.
- 1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance (page 17)
- 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.
- 2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay
- (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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preacher
English
Etymology
From Middle English precher, prechere; partly equivalent to preach +? -er, and partly continuing Middle English prechour, prechiour, from Old French preecheor (French prêcheur), from Latin praedicator (“public praiser, proclaimer”). See preach.
Displaced native Old English bydel.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?it???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?i?t???/
- Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
- Hyphenation: preach?er
Noun
preacher (plural preachers)
- Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel; a clergyman or clergywoman.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 10:
- The born preacher we feel instinctively to be our foe. He may do some good to the wretches that have been struck down and lie gasping on the battlefield: he rouses antagonism in the strong.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 10:
Derived terms
- preacher bench
- preacher curl
- preacheress
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