reaped
English
reap
English
Verb
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
* Bible, Leviticus
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
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.
- to reap a benefit from exertions
* Milton
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. <q cite="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28World_English%29/Galatians
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(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
- Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* reaper
* reap what one sows
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Noun
(en noun )
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
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reamed
English
ream
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reme, rem, from (etyl) . See also (l).
Noun
(en noun )
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
Verb
(en verb )
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
* Sir Walter Scott
- a huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
Etymology 2
From (etyl) remen, rimen, . More at (l).
Verb
(en verb )
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
To remove (material) by reaming.
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
(slang) To yell at or berate.
(slang, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) reeme, from (etyl) raime, .
Noun
(en noun )
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
An abstract large amount of something.
- I can’t go – I still have reams of work left.
Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, bundle, quire
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