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Reacher

Reacher \Reach"er\ (-[~e]r), n.

  1. One who reaches.

  2. An exaggeration. [Obs.]
    --Fuller.

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reacher

n. 1 A person who reaches. 2 A device used to reach something. 3 A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker. 4 (context obsolete English) An exaggeration.

Usage examples of "reacher".

Reacher, who had pivoted and dropped into guard to face the second swine just before Van Duyn had fired, gazed from the dead quarry to its slayer in calm curiosity, head tilted inquisitively.

Snow Leopardess and Reacher, Van Duyn took him aside for a hasty conference.

With the Scabbardless was a haunted Andre deCourteney bearing Blazetongue on his hip, and Reacher, King of Freegate with his sister Katya and Edward Van Duyn and allies in thousands.

Because right about now Reacher is walking past the Bishops Pargeter church.

He found this feeling untroublesome, his companionship with Reacher unlabored.

They made their cautious way toward the bridgeway with Reacher and the prowlers afoot, eliminating the occasional sentry without commotion.

I guess Springbuck and Van Duyn and the others got to whatsisname, Reacher?

Springbuck left his troops to rest in preparation for the conflict, while he rode forward with Bonesteel, Reacher and Gil to assess the situation.

One by one, all the regular troops were sent dashing back to Freegate, galloping for their lives, while Reacher and Katya, Springbuck, Hightower and Gil held shoulder to shoulder along with Dunston and Bonesteel, who stoutly refused to leave.

The woman called Crystal had finished her third spot and was hauling a harmless guy backstage for a twenty-buck private show when Reacher saw two men emerge at the top of the stairs.

Not hasty check marks in pencil, like Reacher had scrawled, but neat underlinings done with a fountain pen and a beveled ruler held away from the paper so the ink wouldn't smudge.

REACHER LAY QUIETLY ON THE DIRTY STRAW IN HIS STALL IN THE cow barn.

Reacher climbed down the fourth wall and walked back to her stall.

They clattered down the stairs and a moment later Reacher heard the sound of a gasoline engine starting up directly below.

Reacher had scouted and found that the balance of the original force under the late Ibn-al-Yed had been separated and moved, under Legion-Marshal Novanwyn, through the Keel of Heaven to lay siege to Freegate, leaving a holding unit in the mountain pass.