Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
REAP
reap, harvest, glean
(verb) gather, as of natural products; “harvest the grapes”
reap, draw
(verb) get or derive; “He drew great benefits from his membership in the association”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle (obsolete) reapt or reaped)
(transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
(transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
(transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
(transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
Noun
reap (plural reaps)
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Synonyms
• (bundle of grain): sheaf
Anagrams
• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape
Source: Wiktionary
Reap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raped; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] Etym: [OE. repen, AS. ripan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]
1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. Lev.
2. 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; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate Milton.
3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak. Reaping hook, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Reap, v. i.
Definition: To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5.
Reap, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. rip harvest. See Reap, v.]
Definition: A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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