reeper, reaper Anglo-Indian.
(ˈriːpə(r))
[ad. Mahratti rīp (Yule).]
(See quots.)
| 1734 in J. H. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1862) III. 148 Paid the Banksall Merchants for the house poles, country reapers, &c. necessary for house building. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Reepers, laths, or longitudinal sections of the palmyra palm, used for building purposes in the East; the trunk of the tree is split into 8 for reepers, and these are dressed with an adze. 1886 Yule & Burnell Anglo-Ind. Gloss., Reaper. The small laths, laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles, are so called in Anglo-Indian house-building. |