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Reap   /rip/   Listen
verb
Reap  v. t.  (past & past part. reaped; pres. part. reaping)  
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. (R.)
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  v. i.  To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."



noun
Reap  n.  A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)






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"Reap" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I have my reasons," answered the magician: "I am your uncle, I supply the place of your father, and you ought to make no reply. But, child," added he, softening, "do not be afraid; for I shall not ask anything of you, but that you obey me punctually, if you would reap the advantages which I intend you." These fair promises calmed Aladdin's fears and resentment; and when the magician saw that he was appeased, he said to him, "You see what I have done by virtue of my incense, and the words I pronounced. ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... answered the magician; "I supply the place of your father, and you ought to make no reply. But, child," added he, softening, "do not be afraid; for I shall not ask anything of you, but that, if you obey me punctually, you will reap the advantages which I intend you. Know, then, that under this stone there is hidden a treasure, destined to be yours, and which will make you richer than the greatest monarch in the world. No person but yourself is permitted ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Anonymous

... everything—a phantasmal vapour distorting the image of the life we live. You ask me to give him a golden age in spite of himself. All that could be done, by keeping him in the paths of virtue and truth, I did. He is become a man, and as a man he must reap his own sowing." ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... were not in the least affected, Fran was one. She saw and heard Hamilton Gregory's impassioned earnestness, and divined his yearning to touch many hearts; nor did she doubt that he would then and there have given his life to press home upon the erring that they must ultimately reap what they were sowing. Nevertheless she was altogether unmoved. It would have been easier for her ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis

... meane? What sodaine Anger's this? How haue I reap'd it? He parted Frowning from me, as if Ruine Leap'd from his Eyes. So lookes the chafed Lyon Vpon the daring Huntsman that has gall'd him: Then makes him nothing. I must reade this paper: I feare the Story of his Anger. 'Tis so: This paper ha's vndone me: 'Tis th' Accompt Of all that ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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