To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
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.
To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
to reap a benefit from exertions
From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian...
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