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HARVEST
harvest, harvest time
(noun) the season for gathering crops
harvest, harvesting, harvest home
(noun) the gathering of a ripened crop
harvest
(noun) the consequence of an effort or activity; “they gathered a harvest of examples”; “a harvest of love”
crop, harvest
(noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season
harvest
(verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; “Should one harvest organs from dead people for transplants?”
reap, harvest, glean
(verb) gather, as of natural products; “harvest the grapes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
harvest (countable and uncountable, plural harvests)
(UK dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
The yield of harvesting, i.e, the gathered crops or fruits.
(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
Synonyms
• (season of the year): autumn, fall
• (agricultural or horticultural yield): crop
Verb
harvest (third-person singular simple present harvests, present participle harvesting, simple past and past participle harvested)
(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
(intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest
(transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
Anagrams
• thraves
Source: Wiktionary
Har"vest, n. Etym: [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. Carpet.]
1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22. At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.
3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
– Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.
– Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser.
– Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug.
– Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.
– Harvest mouse (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.
– Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton.
– Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.
Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.]
Definition: To reap or gather, as any crop.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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