reap

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   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.

2. 2
   verb

   To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

   to reap a benefit from exertions

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   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,

5. 5
   verb

   gather, as of natural products

6. 6
   verb

   get or derive

7. 7
   verb

   To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine

8. 8
   verb

   rape

Etymology

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”).