# reap
## English
### 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rēp, IPA: /ɹiːp/
* (General American) IPA: /ɹip/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp

### Verb

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)
* (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
* (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 19:9: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.
* (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
    to reap a benefit from exertions
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 6:7:Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
** 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 60:Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLI, page 64:And what delights can equal those ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
** 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport‎:England manager Roy Hodgson got plenty right with a positive selection and the decision to play Rooney in midfield reaped a rich reward - but his boldest move may also have been his biggest mistake.
* (transitive, computer science) 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.
* (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,
* (euphemistic, slang) rape

#### Derived terms

* as you sow, so shall you reap
* reaper
* reap hook
* reaping hook
* reap-silver
* reap the benefits
* reap the harvest
* reap the whirlwind
* reap-time
* reap what one sows
* sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
* sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

#### Translations
### Noun

reap (plural reaps)
* A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

#### Synonyms

* (bundle of grain): sheaf

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape