reap🔊

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

To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.

To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

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