reap

verb

1. (transitive)To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
2. (transitive)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.”

3. (transitive)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.”

   “Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?”

   “And what delights can equal those ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?”

   “England manager Roy Hodgson got plenty right with a positive selection and the decision to play Rooney in midfield reaped a rich reward - but his boldest move may also have been his biggest mistake.”

4. (transitive)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.”

5. (obsolete, transitive)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,”

6. (euphemistic, slang)To rape.

noun

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