Reap

Quick meaning: Reap is a verb meaning (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.

Meaning

(transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
2. (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
3. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
5. (euphemistic, slang) To rape.
6. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Example Sentences

to reap a benefit from exertions

Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?

Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,

Word Forms

• reaps
• reaping
• reaped
• reapt

Synonyms for reap

Depending on context, synonyms include harvest, sheaf, wheatsheaf, draw, glean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glean, harvest, draw, mowing, hay, haying.

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