reap
verb (used with object)
to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
unreaped
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a word derived from
reap.
Example Sentences
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Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped."
From Time Magazine Archive
They left no humble sheaf unreaped in the clean-cut fields of their work.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage
Unsupported and weak, let him wander through fields where the unreaped corn stands in barren plenty, through copses planted by his fathers, through towns built for his use.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
