reap (rep)

[ When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. Lev. xix. 9. That which they reapt on the land was put into storehouses built for that purpose. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 876. And no Man ever reapt his Corn, Or from the Oven drew his Bread, Ere Hinds and Bakers yet were born, That taught them both to sow and knead. Prior , Alma, i. 2. To cut a crop of grain, or something likened to such a crop, from; clear by or as if by reaping. His chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 34. 4988 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap . Micah vi. 15. reapmant (rēp'man), n. [ repman , IMG:content-1705.png:[merged small][ocr errors] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5. reapt (rēp), n. [Early mod. E. also repe ; rep , rip , rip , rūp , a reaping, a crop, harvest (als (also in comp., as rip - man , harvester, rip - tim a , harvest), t), also a sheaf of grain, etc., rip an , rūpan , reap: see reap , v .] A sheaf of grain. [Prov. Eng.] IMG:content-1706.png:[blocks in formation] When brown August o'er the land Call'd forth the reapers ' busy band. Scott , Rokeby, vi. 35. In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering, innumerable reapers have already put their sickles. Macaulay . Only reapers , reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly. Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, i. 2. A machine for cutting grain; a reaping-machine. The reaper, an ancient sophism, to the following effect: If you are to reap, it is not true that perhaps you will reap and perhaps not, but you will certainly reap. On the other hand, if you are not to reap, it is not true that perhaps you will reap and perhaps not, but you will certainly not. Thus you will either nece arily reap, or nece arily not reap, and the statement that there is a "perhaps" is false.