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reap

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1. reap - Noun

2. reap - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. Pythagoras

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Adam Smith

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat. Persian Proverb

If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows. Filipino Proverb

As you sow, so shall you reap. Bulgarian Proverb

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