[terminology] reap

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or reapt)

1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
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.

   to reap a benefit from exertions

3. (computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

   Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

4. (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)