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| English Dictionary: reap |
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| 4 results for reap |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- reap
- v
- gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn:
reap, harvest, glean]
- get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
Synonym(s): reap, draw
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Reap \Reap\, n. [Cf. AS. r[c6]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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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Reap \Reap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Reaping}.] [OE. repen, AS. r[c6]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.
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