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  • verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of reap.

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Examples

  • Pullen, yea their verie Dogges, the truest and faithfullest servants to men, being beaten and banished from their houses, went wildly wandring abroad in the fields, where the Corne grew still on the ground without gathering, or being so much as reapt or cut.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Cookery that have adorned your Tables; nor can I but confess to the world, except I should be Guilty of the highest Ingratitude, that the only structure of this my Art and knowledge, I owed to your costs, generous and inimitable Epences; thus not only I have derived my experience, but your Country hath reapt the Plenty of your

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reapt down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth.

    The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's HistoryThe Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History Aaron 1845

  • Penetration, will no question be so Tackt and Consolidated, that when they return, they all Write Memoirs of the Place, and communicate to their Country the Advantages they have reapt by their Voyage, according to the laudable Example of their

    The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Occasions require; and what abundance of Advantages are reapt from such a Union, both to their own Body as a Party, and to the

    The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Ok well my sister is with this guy and he mentally abuse her and trying to hur her and controls her? well they have been together for over 3 years and they just had a child togther. he has already have 5 kids of his own to another women. well anyway get on with it he abuse her pretty bad i think he gone to far now i want get my sister and neice out of there but she thinks he loves her but i can see and our family can see he isnt in love with her. he abues her by telling her she should be home in 20 mins and Min's if she is 2 mins late he goes carzy iv seen this happen so many times and saying such mean words i cant reapt it so out of this world mean to her and trys to locks her out of the house. then the next day he says how much he loICH her. he drinks every night and shoots up and dosent save money for the kids for school or feed the kids so he asks me then i give it to them he land up spending it on ice or weed or piss. i dont want my neice to grow up a life like that i don, t want just sit back and just let this happen over and over every night anymore.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • 431: New reapt, the other part sheep-walks and foulds;

    Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

  • 4.65.4: Hath reapt the palme that valiance could not cease.

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

  • "Now the Wilmington trouble was a disgrace and a sin, the slaying of those ignorant and non-responsible Negroes that did not even surmise the extent of the growing trouble and never in their lives reapt any of

    John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch Robert McCants 1920

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