Definition of reapers:
(n) :
One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
(n) :
A machine used to harvest crops.
(n) :
A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
(n) :
(India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
(n) :
(often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. [A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.]