A reaper is a machine used to cut and gather crops. see also Grim Reaper. Any farm machine that cuts grain (cereal). Early reapers simply cut the crop and dropped it unbound. Modern machines include harvesters, combines (see combine harvester), and binders, which also perform other harvesting operations. See also Cyrus H. McCormick
The Grim Reaper is an imaginary character who represents death. He looks like a skeleton, wears a long, black cloak with a hood, and carries a scythe. The personification of death as a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. a name given to Death in stories and literature. He is shown in pictures as a human skeleton in long black clothes that also cover his head, carrying a large scythe (=a tool for cutting crops)