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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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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