verb
To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest.
To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
to reap a benefit from exertions
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
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.
To deprive of the beard; to shave.
Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,
noun
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.