different between reacter vs reacher

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react +? -er

reacter (plural reacters)

One who reacts.
- 1972, Philip Roger Marvin, Man in motion: a winning game plan for executives (page 107)
  While he is easier to work with than the one who reacts quickly to whatever happens, the slow reacter rarely makes other than his routine contributions to what's going on.

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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