Definition of Reap

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Definition of Reap

Reap

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

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.

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

To deprive of the beard; to shave.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

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

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Reap Quotations

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier

Reap Translations

reap in German is ernten
reap in Italian is raccogliere
reap in Latin is lift tondeo totonsi tonsum
reap in Spanish is cosechar, segar

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