"reacher" meaning in English

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          "text": "In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.",
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        "A person who reaches."
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        "A device used to reach something."
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        "A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker."
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        "(nautical) A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker."
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        "(obsolete) An exaggeration"
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        "A person who reaches."
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