'Reap' definitions:
Definition of 'reap'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Reap'
From: GCIDE
- Reap \Reap\, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. [1913 Webster]
- They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. --Ps. cxxvi. 5. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reap'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. --Lev. xix. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reap'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reap'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- acquire,
- bag,
- be seized of,
- bob,
- boil down,
- bring in,
- capsulize,
- capture,
- catch,
- clip,
- come by,
- come in for,
- come into,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- corral,
- crop,
- crop herbs,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- derive,
- dig,
- dock,
- drag down,
- draw,
- earn,
- elide,
- enter into possession,
- epitomize,
- foreshorten,
- gain,
- garner,
- gather,
- gather in,
- get,
- glean,
- grabble,
- harvest,
- hay,
- make,
- mow,
- net,
- nip,
- nut,
- obtain,
- pick,
- pluck,
- poll,
- pollard,
- procure,
- profit,
- prune,
- pull down,
- reap and carry,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- sack,
- score,
- secure,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- snub,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take,
- take in,
- take up,
- telescope,
- trim,
- truncate,
- win