REAP
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Reap (r&ē;p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped (r&ē;pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r&ī;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.
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When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
Lev. xix. 9.
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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.
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Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing
For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
Milton.
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3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
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4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak.
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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.
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Reap, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
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They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ps. cxxvi. 5.
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Reap, n. [Cf. AS. r&ī;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.
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