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.