Crossword clues for reaped
reaped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reap \Reap\ (r[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped (r[=e]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. r[=i]pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]
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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.
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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.
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To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.]
--Shak.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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reap)
Usage examples of "reaped".
Every occupied tent—he supposed some men were off on fatigues and so forth—had two wigwams of four rifles each before it, leaning together upright with the men's helmets nodding on them like grain in a reaped field.
North beyond that was a broad stretch of reaped wheat stubble with alfalfa showing green between the faded gold of the straw.
White-hot, the noon sun burned most color out of the land, turning the reaped grainfields to a pale yellow dust.
As Raj watched, it reaped as much land as a dozen peons could do in a day.
It would be a curse upon ears of corn not to be reaped: and we ought to know, that it would be a curse upon man not to die.
Since, then, it is necessary for us to be reaped, and we have, at the same time, understanding to know it, are we angry at it?
But the rice he reaped from the land of the Hwangs brought him twice as much as that from his own rice land.
From his fields Wang Lung reaped scanty harvest of hardy beans, and from his corn field, which he had planted in despair when the rice beds had yellowed and died before ever the plants had been set into the watered field, he plucked short stubby ears with the grains scattered here and there.
And he reaped his wheat and the rains came and the young green rice was set into the flooded fields and again it was summer.
Martina reaped indeed the harvest of his death, and assumed the government in the name of the surviving emperor.