Reap /(rēp)/

Reap

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Reaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
— Lev. xix. 9.
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.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
— Milton.
To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.]

Reaping hook: an implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

v. i.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
— Ps. cxxvi. 5.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]