Definition of "reap" []

• To cut (grain or pulse) for harvest with a scythe, sickle, or reaper. (verb-transitive)
• To harvest (a crop). (verb-transitive)
• To harvest a crop from: reaping a field. (verb-transitive)
• To obtain as a result of effort: She reaped large profits from her unique invention. (verb-transitive)
• To cut or harvest grain or pulse. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So where it is said, _Babylon is fallen, is fallen_; and _thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time is come for thee to reap_; and _the time of the dead is come, that they should be judged_; and again, _I saw the dead small and great stand before God_: these sayings relate not to the days of _John_ the Apostle, but to the latter times considered as present in the visions."
• "They will continue to reap from the sick and the dying until we have a fair public option."
• "Paradoxically, where are the benefits that we were meant to reap from the former grammar schools?"