Reap
Reap (rēp) , transitive verb
[Old English repen, Anglo-Saxon rīpan to seize, reap; compare Dutch rapen to glean, reap, German raufen to pluck, Gothic raupjan, or English ripe.]
1.
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
2.
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing
For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
3.
To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
4.
To deprive of the beard; to shave. [Rare] — Shakespeare
Collocations (1)
Reaping hook , an implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Reap , intransitive verb
To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Reap , noun
[Compare Anglo-Saxon rīp harvest. See Reap, v.]
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obsolete or Provincial English] — Wright