reap
verbnounattested in dialogue
- //ˈɹiːp//
- /[ˈɹɪi̯p]/
To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
verb
- 1
To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
- 2
To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest.
- 3
To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
to reap a benefit from exertions
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?
And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
- 4
To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- 5
obsoleteTo deprive of the beard; to shave.
Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,
- 6
slangTo rape.
Etymology
From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).
noun
- 1
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Forms
- plural
- reaps
- past tense
- reaped, reapt
- past participle
- reaped, reapt
- present participle
- reaping
- third person singular
- reaps
reap · To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
reaper · One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the…rear · To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to…rearrange · To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).