🇬🇧 Reap meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To reap means to cut and gather plants like wheat, corn, or rice from a field when they are fully grown. Farmers use tools or machines to slice the tall plants and collect them so the food can be used or sold. Reaping is one of the last steps in farming, when the plants are ready to be taken from the field.

When Dad helped reap the hay, he ended up wearing half of it as a stylish, itchy wig.

The chickens watched the farmer reap the barley and whispered, “There go our snacks for the year.”

A bored crow gave sports commentary while the farmer reaped the field: “And another stalk goes down!”

The sheep thought the farmer was reaping their favorite snack and complained in very offended “baaa”s.

Farmers have reaped grain with simple hand tools for thousands of years, long before big machines existed to do the job faster.

At dawn she reaped the tall wheat by the river, bending, steady, cutting as light came. She would reap a row, tie it, reap another, hum a soft tune, reap until the sun warmed her back, reap the final stalk, then stand smiling at the bright bundles she had reaped.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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