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reap

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.

2.	to gather or take (a crop, harvest, etc.).

3.	to get as a return, recompense, or result: to reap large profits.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to reap a crop, harvest, etc.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME repen, OE repan, riopan; c. MLG repen to ripple (flax); akin to ripe

]

—Related forms

reap·a·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 3. gather, earn, realize, gain, win.

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reap Audio Help   (rēp) Pronunciation Key
v.   reaped, reap·ing, reaps

v.   tr.

To cut (grain or pulse) for harvest with a scythe, sickle, or reaper.
To harvest (a crop).
To harvest a crop from: reaping a field.
To obtain as a result of effort: She reaped large profits from her unique invention.

v. intr.

To cut or harvest grain or pulse.
To obtain a return or reward.

[Middle English repen, from Old English rīpan.]

Synonyms: These verbs mean to collect: reap grain; garner compliments; gathering mushrooms; glean information; harvested rich rewards.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
reap

"to cut grain with a hook or sickle," O.E. reopan, Mercian form of ripan "to reap," related to O.E. ripe "ripe" (see ripe). Reaper is O.E. ripere, in compound hripemann. Meaning "personification of death" is recorded from 1839.

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reap
verb
1.	gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
2.	get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
reap [riːp] verb

to cut and gather (corn etc)
Example: The farmer is reaping the wheat.

Arabic:	يَحْصُد
Chinese (Simplified):	收割
Chinese (Traditional):	收割
Czech:	sklízet, sekat
Danish:	høste
Dutch:	oogsten
Estonian:	(vilja) koristama
Finnish:	korjata
French:	moissonner
German:	schneiden
Greek:	θερίζω
Hungarian:	(le)arat
Icelandic:	skera korn; uppskera
Indonesian:	menuai
Italian:	mietere

Japanese:	刈り入れる
Korean:	수확하다
Latvian:	pļaut (labību); novākt ražu
Lithuanian:	pjauti
Norwegian:	skjære, slå; høste inn
Polish:	zbierać, żąć
Portuguese (Brazil):	colher, ceifar
Portuguese (Portugal):	colher
Romanian:	a secera
Russian:	жать
Slovak:	zberať, zvážať
Slovenian:	žeti
Spanish:	segar, recoger
Swedish:	skära, skörda
Turkish:	biçmek

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Reap

Reap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raped; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r[=i]pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. 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. --Lev.???. 9.

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? --Milton.

3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak.

Reaping hook, an instrument 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.

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Reap

Reap\, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. --Ps. cxxvi. 5.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Reap

Reap\, n. [Cf. AS. r[=i]p harvest. See Reap, v.] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

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