Thesaurus: reap
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
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Definitions
- v. t. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
- v. t. To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
- v. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
- v. gather, as of natural products
- v. get or derive
- To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather aharvest.They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5.
- v:100 v. gather, as of natural products v. get or derive