reap
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reap
- /ˈɹiːp/
- [ˈɹɪi̯p]
Rhymes with -iːp
Where it comes from
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”).
verb reaps · reaping · reaped · reapt
- 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
- 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.
noun reaps
- A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
