reap
verbEtymology
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”).
Definitions
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
- Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
- Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?
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To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the…
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 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.
A bundle of grain
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA