Definition of Reaping

1. Verb. (present participle of reap) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reaping

1. reap [v] - See also: reap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reaping

reanswering
reanswers
reap
reap-silver
reap hook
reap what one sows
reapable
reaped
reaper
reaper binder
reapers
reapest
reapeth
reaphook
reaphooks
reaping (current term)
reaping hook
reapparel
reappear
reappearance
reappearances
reappeared
reappearing
reappears
reapplicant
reapplicants
reapplication
reapplications
reapplied
reapplies

Literary usage of Reaping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"The reaping-hook is a curved instrument of about a foot aud a half in ... In reaping, the harvester takes the corn in his left hand, and then with the hook ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"On reaping-Machinery. By the Rev. P. BELL. After giving an account of the modes of reaping corn in use from the earliest times, pointing out how little ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Several distinct modes of reaping grain are in use. The most ancient, and still the most common, is by the sickle or reaping-hook, which is used either with ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Several distinct modes of reaping grain are in use. The most ancient, and still the most common, is by the sickle or reaping-hook, which is used cither with ..."

5. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"From these observations the people augured who was to remain single and who was to be married who was to be sick and who was to die, before the next reaping ..."

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