Lope vs Reap - What's the difference?
lope | reap |
(obsolete) To jump, leap.
*, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
*:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
*Middleton
*:He that lopes on the ropes.
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
:He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
* Bible, Leviticus
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.
* Milton
* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
As a proper noun lope
is .As a verb reap is
to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.As a noun reap is
a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.lope
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* * ----reap
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- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
- to reap a benefit from exertions
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.
Gal.6.7
- Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- (Shakespeare)