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To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

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  1. v. t. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  2. 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.
  3. v. t. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
  4. v. t. To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  5. v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
  6. v. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
  7. v. gather, as of natural products
  8. v. get or derive
  9. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather aharvest.They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5.
  10. v:100 v. gather, as of natural products v. get or derive