Reaping hook, an implement having a hook- shaped blade, used in
reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle
by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Reap, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a
harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ps. cxxvi. 5.
Reap, n. [Cf. AS. rp harvest. See Reap, v.] A bundle of grain; a
handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.] Wright.
Reap"er (rp"r), n. 1. One who reaps.
The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads.
Macaulay.