Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reap \Reap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raped}; 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.]
   1. 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. --Lev.???.
                                                  9.

   2. 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.

   3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

   4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak.

   {Reaping hook}, an instrument 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.