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reap

/ˈɹiːp/ noun C2
  1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Plural reaps

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He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 74 · B2
Villefort, who did not choose to reveal the whole secret, lest another should reap all the benefit of the disclosure, had yet communicated enough to cause him the greatest uneasiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 92 · C1
You may one of these days reap the reward of your disinterested devotion.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 182 · C1
“They say that it is quite fair, and that sowing so much red, you ought to reap a little blue.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 432 · C1

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