Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine. · To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. · To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. · To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).
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