Definition of Reap. Meaning of Reap. Synonyms of Reap
Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Reap.
Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Reap and, of course, Reap synonyms and on the right images related to the word Reap.
Definition of Reap
Reap 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.
Reap 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.
Reap 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.
