• enPR: rēp, IPA: /ɹiːp/

reap (reaps, present participle reaping; past and past participle reaped)

1. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
2. (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Leviticus 19:9 ↗:

     And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning#English|gleanings of thy haruest.

3. (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

   to reap a benefit from exertions

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Galatians 6:7 ↗:

     Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 60 ↗:

     Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?

4. (transitive, computer science) 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.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

• French: faucher
• German: ernten, schneiden, mähen, sensen, absensen
• Italian: mietere, falciare
• Portuguese: ceifar
• Russian: жать
• Spanish: segar, cosechar

• German: ernten, einheimsen, einsammeln, sammeln
• Italian: raccogliere, maturare
• Portuguese: colher
• Russian: пожина́ть
• Spanish: cosechar, recoger

reap (plural reaps)

1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

• (bundle of grain) sheaf

• German: Garbe
• Italian: balla, fascina, covone
• Spanish: mies