reaping
Cutting crops for collection
Reaping is harvesting grain or other crops by cutting—traditionally with a scythe or sickle, now usually by machine.
The word extends to gathering any kind of results: reaping the benefits of hard work, reaping what you sow.
The Grim Reaper harvests souls.
Extracting grain from stalks
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
- sheavesBound clusters of stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
combine · harvester · flail · chaff · straw · binder · glean · shock
Gathering mature crops
- fallDescend under gravity
- foliagePlant's leafy covering
- pumpkinLarge orange autumn gourd
- equinoxSun crosses celestial midline
scarecrow · cornucopia · hayride · cider · bonfire · abundance · thanksgiving · maize
Planting for cultivation
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- rewardPayment for service
- outcomeFinal result of events
dividend · payoff · comeuppance · yield · fruits · desserts · return · reckoning
Cessation of life
- mortalityState of eventual death
- finalityState of conclusive completion
- soulsImmaterial human essences
- fatePredetermined course of events
demise · passing · scythe · specter · doom · toll · knell · judgment
Planting for cultivation
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- growthIncrease in size
- harvestingGathering mature crops
tilling · plowing · germination · pruning · weeding · husbandry · agronomy · irrigation
threshing
Extracting grain from stalks
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
- sheavesBound clusters of stalks
winnowing · combine · harvester · flail · chaff · straw · binder · glean · shock · grist
harvest
Gathering mature crops
equinox · scarecrow · cornucopia · hayride · cider · bonfire · abundance · thanksgiving · maize · chestnut
sowing
Planting for cultivation
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- rewardPayment for service
outcome · dividend · payoff · comeuppance · yield · fruits · desserts · return · reckoning · wages
death
Cessation of life
- mortalityState of eventual death
- finalityState of conclusive completion
- soulsImmaterial human essences
fate · demise · passing · scythe · specter · doom · toll · knell · judgment · afterlife
sowing
Planting for cultivation
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- growthIncrease in size
harvesting · tilling · plowing · germination · pruning · weeding · husbandry · agronomy · irrigation · fertilizing
- farm lifefarm, farmer, farmers, farming, barn
- grain farmingwheat, wheat field, wheat fields, wheat farming, corn
- harvestfall harvest, wheat sheaf, gathering, corn harvest, crops
- Rural Village Lifefarming, harvest, plowing, seeds, crops
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- food procurementforaging, harvesting, fishing, gathering, berry picking
reapingsowing
Planting for cultivation
planting · seeding · tilling · cultivating · plowing
reapingscattering
Distribution in many directions
sowing · dispersing · spreading · distributing · broadcasting
- reaping what one sowsReceiving earned consequences
- sowing and reapingPlanting then collecting crops
- reaping the harvestGathering mature crops
- reaping the whirlwindSuffering consequences of recklessness