Reap
[riːp] or [rip]
Definition
(verb.) gather, as of natural products; 'harvest the grapes'.
(verb.) get or derive; 'He drew great benefits from his membership in the association'.
Inputed by Billy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
(v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cut with a sickle.[2]. Gather, gain, get, obtain.
v. n. Gather the harvest.
Edited by Angus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain
ANT:Scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose
Checked by Joy
Definition
v.t. to cut down as grain: to clear off a crop: to gather by effort: to receive as a reward: to obtain a harvest.—ns. Reap′er Reap′man; Reap′ing-hook a hook-shaped instrument with a handle for cutting grain: a sickle; Reap′ing-machine′ a machine for cutting grain drawn by horses &c.; Reap′-sil′ver money paid by feudal tenants as a commutation for their services in reaping the crops.
Editor: Maggie
Examples
- Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There, sharp eyes and sharp stomachs reap even the east wind, and get something out of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Follow me to the throne; we will reap vengeance where vengeance is deserved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I have never done well in life beyond my duty as a soldier, and if the worst comes after all, I shall reap pretty much as I have sown. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Really, Ursula, he seems to reap the women like a harveSt. There wasn't one that would have resisted him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A full lifetime would be required to plant the crop, and a second generation would be required to reap it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She had further to go, a further, slow exquisite experience to reap, unthinkable subtleties of sensation to know, before she was finished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir, said the nephew, we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Now the introduction of reaping and mowing machines, and other improved agricultural machinery, is not opposed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was eminently superfluous to him to be told that he was reaping the consequences. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From the first pages of history we find that the reaping hook or sickle is the earliest tool for harvesting grain of which we have record. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Reaping the Whirlwind With a precursory sound of hurried breath and hurried feet, Mr Pancks rushed into Arthur Clennam's Counting-house. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Reaping Hook or Sickle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By a few goings and returnings the whole field is reaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The war against Pyrrhus was won by the Carthaginian fleet, and Rome reaped a full half of the harvest of victory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What I reaped, I had sown. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Daguerre patented the process in other countries, and France alone reaped the benefit of a free use of the invention. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Many United States patents granted to foreign chemists are still in force, and the rich reward of their skill is reaped at our expense. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Let her moan for the harvest that she reaps today! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Thirdly, To the pleasure and advantage, which he himself reaps from his possessions, and which produce an agreeable sympathy in us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Edited by Constantine