(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.
