Reap vs. Sow — What's the Difference?

To cut (grain or pulse) for harvest with a scythe, sickle, or reaper.

To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.

To harvest (a crop).

To scatter seed over (land, for example).

To harvest a crop from

To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over

To obtain as a result of effort

To propagate; disseminate

To cut or harvest grain or pulse.

To scatter seed for growing.

To obtain a return or reward.

An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.

(transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine

The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.

(transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.

A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.

(transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.

The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.

To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

A female pig.

To deprive of the beard; to shave.

A female bear, she-bear.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

A female guinea pig.

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

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

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; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

A contemptible, often fat woman.

To deprive of the beard; to shave.

A sowbug.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

Gather, as of natural products;

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.

Get or derive;

(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Obsolete spelling of sew

To sew. See Sew.

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

A sow bug.

A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.

An adult female hog

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

Introduce into an environment;

Place seeds in or on (the ground);