reacher

noun

1. A person who reaches.

   “In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.”

2. A device used to reach something.
3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.

   “Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.”

4. (obsolete)An exaggeration

   “I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright"”

name

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.