reaping, vbl. n.
(ˈriːpɪŋ)
[f. reap v.1]
1. a. The action of the vb. reap, in lit. or fig. uses; also, the amount reaped.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 97 Tyme of þis repinge is clepid þe day of dome. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 430/1 Repynge, of corne, messura. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John iv, There is more pain and labour about the tilling and sowing, then in the haruest and reaping. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 179 To the readie reaping of your comoditie. 1693 Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 32 Those which..require some help in order to a good Reaping. 1765 Museum Rust. III. 136 Let the wheat stand ever so well, yet reaping is preferable to mowing. 1812 Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 270 An acre of potatoes gives 120 days reaping (shearing). 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1053 Calculating every day's reaping of those who are hired by the day. 1881 Athenæum 5 Nov. 603/2 That blueness which proves thousands of reapings by a razor. |
b. Judo. The action of reaping (
reap v.
1 2 e) the leg or legs of one's opponent.
| 1954 E. Dominy Teach Yourself Judo vii. 70 The Major Outer Reaping. This is one of the most effective and popular throws in judo. 1956 K. Tomiki Judo iii. 68 O-soto-gari (Major Outer Reaping Leg Throw). 1976 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 547/2 The most successful throws have proved to be..o-soto-gari (major outer reaping throw), [etc.]. |
2. attrib. and
Comb., as
reaping-fork,
reaping-hook,
reaping-scythe,
reaping-sickle,
reaping-time;
reaping-machine = reaper 2.
| 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 793 A *reaping fork is sometimes made use of for collecting it into sheaves. |
| a 1700 Dryden (J.), It looks Most plainly done by thieves with *reaping-hooks. 1765 Museum Rust. III. 134 They must imagine..that the new-fashioned scythes are much better for use than the old-fashioned reaping-hooks. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 794 The sickle with teeth should be employed in preference to the reaping-hook with a cutting blade. 1842 Macaulay Horatius xiv, Sun⁓burned husbandmen With reaping-hooks and staves. |
| 1812 Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 328 No *reaping machine has yet been invented, that will answer the object they had in view. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1076 The first reaping-machine that came before the public with any claim to efficiency was that of Mr. Smeath of Deanston, about the year 1814–15. |
| Ibid. 1081 Of this form of mounting a *reaping-scythe there are many varieties. |
| 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Moissonnier, a *reaping sickle. |
| 1388 Wyclif Matt. xiii. 30 Suffre ȝe hem bothe wexe..in to *repyng tyme. 1611 Cotgr., Moisson,..reaping time. |