reaping  /r'ipɪŋ/

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資料來源(1): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  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.