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Reap
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- 1 A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
- 1 To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine transitive
- 2 gather, as of natural products wordnet
- 3 To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. transitive
"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."
- 4 get or derive wordnet
- 5 To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. transitive
"to reap a benefit from exertions"
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- 6 To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. transitive
"Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process."
- 7 To deprive of the beard; to shave. obsolete, transitive
"Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,"
- 8 rape euphemistic, slang
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”).
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”).
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