Crossword clues for reaping
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
n. The act by which something is reaped. vb. (present participle of reap English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "reaping".
He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window sill, and is reaping quite a harvest of flies.
Where corn begins to fall, Where reapers are reaping, reaping one, reaping all.
The hum of the reaping machine first awoke the echoes in our wheatfields.
By calling he was a fitter, and he had come to submit a difficulty which had just arisen in the piecing together of a reaping machine.
Why, one might bury millions there without reaping a single bushel of oats!
Pride of flesh from bondage free, Reaping vigour of its waste, Marks her servitors, and she Sanctifies the unembraced.
They suited the days gone by, When I pulled the poppies and pansies, When I hunted the butterfly, With one who has long been sleeping, A stranger to doubts and cares, And to sowing that ends in reaping Thistles, and thorns, and tares.
Out here they had more serious things to worry about than Reaping Day Fairs.
What is its name, and what does it deserve, and what fruit are we already reaping out of it?
Moments later the monster plowed into the deserted pavilion like a reaping machine, flailing and snapping with its pedipalpi, shredding thick fabric, crushing tentpoles.
Fluid movement, scything into living flesh, reaping a harvest of death.
In their fore-claws, some wielded staves carved of stone, or enormous blades, or long iron poles with reaping hooks.
Joining the noise of the insects were the sounds of hundreds of stones rubbing endlessly on bayonets, the countrymen sharpening the blades as they used to sharpen reaping hooks or wide-bladed scythes.
Virtuan temples during the services are not the reawakened deities of ancient Babylon and Sumer, but are some of the lesser deities of Virtu playing a role and reaping some intangible benefit from being at the center of so much attention.
It seems that when the tenants were called on to perform work in hedging, reaping, or hay-making, upon the lands of the lord of the manor, in lieu of money rent he was bound to feed them through the day, and generally to conclude with a merry-making.