Reaf vs Reap - What's the difference?
reaf | reap |
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of practise of robbery; spoliation; depredation.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of carrying off, abducting, or devouring (another).
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) Rapacity; greedy desire for plunder.
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) A thief; robber.
* 1834 August 2, Niles' Register , page 384:
* 1891 , H. A. Moriarty, Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, Westward of Longitude 80° east, including Madagascar , page 124:
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 nouns the difference between reaf and reap
is that reaf is (now|chiefly|dialectal) spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery or reaf can be while reap is a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.As a verb reap is
to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.reaf
English
Etymology 1
See (m).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A large number of vessels continued to be wrecked, and a vast amount of property is lost on the Florida reafs .
- The largest ships may pass between the outer reafs and the Black rocks.
reap
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Verb
- 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)
