reap
Bring in sheaves
Reap means to cut and gather a crop, especially grain: They reaped the wheat by hand.
The word extends to collecting results or consequences of actions: reap the benefits, reap what you sow.
The figurative sense dominates modern usage—harvesting machines have largely displaced the literal one.
Manual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
- gleanCollect in small increments
sheaf · combine · harvester · grain · wheat · barley · oats · rye
Implant in earth
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- aftermathResults following an event
fallout · repercussion · outcome · result · payback · destiny · fate · ramification
scythe
Manual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
glean · sheaf · combine · harvester · grain · wheat · barley · oats · rye · cornucopia
sow
Implant in earth
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
aftermath · fallout · repercussion · outcome · result · payback · destiny · fate · ramification · accountability
benefit
Advantage or gain
dividend · bonus · bounty · earnings · return · yield · fruits · spoils · prize · payout
farming
Cultivating land for food
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
sowing · plowing · cropland · agronomy · plantation · paddy · soybeans · legumes · millets · sorghum
- Yieldharvest, bounty, crop yield, bumper crop, abundance
- harvestfall harvest, wheat sheaf, gathering, corn harvest, crops
- gathering verbsgather, collect, accumulate, amass, compile
- Grim Reaperscythe, skeleton, skull, hooded figure, black cloak
- bring infetch, carry, gather, collect, haul
- make the most ofcapitalize, exploit, seize, leverage, harness
- reaps the harvestGathers mature crops
- Grim ReaperSkeletal embodiment of mortality
- reap the benefits
- reap what one sowsFace consequences of actions
- reap the whirlwindSuffer consequences of misdeeds
- reaping what one sowsReceiving earned consequences