Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
There, Socrates, you are detected "in the very act"; you know as much about reaping as I do myself.
Eyes and hands must suffer, I imagine, if one stood reaping face to face with husks and particles of straw.
The sheep that were being bargained for are neither bought nor sold; the hay is left unstacked; the reaping is discontinued.
He was thus a sort of individual analogy to the capitalist regime which, as Mr. Veblen describes it, is capable of reaping its profits only by maintaining throughout the industrial system in general a certain "incapacity by advisement.
Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
We had in Egypt, ever reapingnew Harvest of ripe delights.
In many instances he but followed out the aims of Julius, reaping their undivided glory; in others he fell sadly short of his predecessor in energy and comprehensive views.
A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang.
The main stumblingblocks of earlier inventors of reaping and mowing machines was in finding a suitable method of cutting the grain.
Farmers reverted to the time-honored method of reaping by hand and the ox-pushed machine was forgotten.
In this respect the great World War was no exception and we are already reaping benefits which in a small way compensate for the havoc that was wrought.
But although many patents on reaping machines were granted by the British patent office, nothing was produced that completely met the requirements.
It enabled a man to use two hands at the work of reaping instead of one.
And believe me, they arereaping the reward of their betrayal of the Bourbon cause.
He was as careful of the sowing and reaping of the peasants' hay and corn as of his own, and few landowners had their crops sown and harvested so early and so well, or got so good a return, as did Nicholas.
Throughout all this period of the armed peace she was reaping and sowing afresh and reapingagain the harvests, the unfailing harvests, of freely disseminated knowledge.
The three powers combined to prevent Japan reaping any fruits from the Chinese war, and particularly from establishing herself on the mainland at the points commanding the Japan sea.
The settled Chinese population went on sowing and reaping and trading during this change of masters without lending its weight to either side.
It was plain that Great Britain and Holland and Portugal werereaping a great and growing commercial advantage from their very considerable control of tropical and semi-tropical products.
They must wait until the grain which they are reaping has been threshed and ground before they can have their fill.
The immediate result of an over-abundant harvest in far-off Samara is that the peasants who have come hither to earn a little money at reaping return home penniless, or worse, to their suffering families.
Under this system, South Australia grows on the average six times as much wheat as she can use, whereas, if reaping had to be paid for, she could only grow from one and a half to twice as much as would meet the home demand.
In reply, Mexico is a land following the inevitable law of reaping what it has sown, and both the sowing and the reaping are but exaggerated forms of processes that are affecting the world at large.
What a fool you were to think that her heart could beat for any creature of flesh or blood, or, indeed, for anything but her Reaping Girl and Boy, if she has a heart at all.
Vegetation in this clime is very abundant; but there are some fearful drawbacks to our reaping its fruits.
At the time of harvest, when the men are reaping down the fields, should their master have any friends visiting his fields, the head man among the labourers usually asks a largess, which is generally a shilling.
The death of Lord Lake this year removed those difficulties which had, ever since the appointment of Sheridan to the receivership of the Duchy of Cornwall, stood in the way of his reaping the full advantages of that office.
The Governor-General, however, in this one instance, incurred the full odium of iniquity without reaping any of its reward.
Probably the first to complete a binding attachment that was partly automatic, and to attach it to a reaping machine, were H.
Such great reaping machines only find useful application in the enormous wheat fields of California and the Pacific Coast States, where the dry climate permits the grain to ripen and dry sufficiently while standing in the field.
Nothing has contributed more to the rapid advance of the province than the institution of the Agricultural Society, and from it we are already reaping the most beneficial results.
Unfit as reaping hook, The chisel was in anger cast away.
The Devil had a scythe for reaping hay, While Perkons' sons forged God a chisel blade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reaping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crop; cutting; gathering; gleaning; harvest; harvesting
