Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reap \Reap\, v. i.
   To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a
   harvest.

         They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. --Ps. cxxvi.
                                                  5.

Reap \Reap\, n. [Cf. AS. r[=i]p harvest. See {Reap}, v.]
   A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper
   as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

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.

Source : WordNet®

reap
     v 1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: {harvest},
           {glean}]
     2: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership
        in the association" [syn: {draw}]