reap

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To get or receive something as a result of your actions.

   After years of hard work, she is now reaping the rewards.

2. 2
   verb

   To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.

   The farmers reaped the wheat before the autumn rains.

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”).

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