Definition of 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.

- Bible. Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- :For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28World_English%29/Galatians
- Chapter_6 Gal.6.7
  1. (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  2. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

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