Mower vs. Reaper — What's the Difference?

To cut (grass or grain) from

Reaper The Grim Reaper.

A mower is a person or machine that cuts (mows) grass or other plants that grow on the ground. Usually mowing is distinguished from reaping, which uses similar implements, but is the traditional term for harvesting grain crops, e.g.

A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass.

To cut down (grass or grain) with a scythe or a mechanical device.

One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops.

To cut down grass or other growth.

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.

A machine used to harvest crops.

A farm machine used in hay production (sickle mower, finger-bar mower).

Ellipsis of Grim Reaper

A person who cuts grass.

The recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

One who reaps.

Garden tool for mowing grass on lawns

A reaping machine.

Someone who helps to gather the harvest

Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe

Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields