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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reap v 1: gather, as of as crops [syn: {harvest}, {glean}] 2: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" [syn: {draw}]
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