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Definition of Reaping
1. reap [v] - See also: reap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reaping
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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