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reacher

English

Etymology

reach +? -er

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

  1. 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.
  2. A device used to reach something.
  3. 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.
  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"

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treacher

English

Etymology

From Middle English trecher, from Old French trecheor (modern tricheur), from trechier, tricher (to cheat, trick). Compare English trick.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??t????/
  • Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Noun

treacher (plural treachers)

  1. (archaic) A traitor or deceiver.

Derived terms

  • treacherer
  • treachersome

Related terms

  • treacherous
  • treachery

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