Reacher

Origin

reach + -er

Full definition of reacher

Noun

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 BayEach tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.
4. (obsolete) An exaggeration.