From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reap
v 1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn:
reap, harvest, glean]
2: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in
the association" [syn: reap, draw]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Reap \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Reap \Reap\, n. [Cf. AS. r[imac]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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Reap \Reap\ (r[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped (r[=e]pt); p.
pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r[imac]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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