reap

verb

take as harvest

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːp/ / [ˈɹɪi̯p]

noun

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”).

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

verb

To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
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.”
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.”
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.”
To 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,”
To rape.