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Harvest   /hˈɑrvəst/   Listen
noun
Harvest  n.  
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." "At harvest, when corn is ripe."
2.
That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe." "To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps."
3.
The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. "The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee." "The harvest of a quiet eye."
Harvest fish (Zool.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
Harvest fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.
Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. (Obs.)
Harvest mite (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest.
Harvest spider. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs.



verb
Harvest  v. t.  (past & past part. harvested; pres. part. harvesting)  To reap or gather, as any crop.






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"Harvest" Quotes from Famous Books



... than a single meal a-day for himself and family. The Bengal ryot knows nothing of the most ordinary comforts of life. We speak without exaggeration when we affirm, that if the real condition of those who raise the harvest, which yields between 3,000,000l. and 4,000,000l. a-year, was fully known, it would make the ears of one ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... of wheat, corn, and cotton were shown also. There were samples of wheat weighing 67 pounds to the bushel. Statistics show that the annual harvest of wheat reaches 120,000,000 bushels. Argentine linseed also deserves consideration in this description, the Republic producing almost one-third of the linseed consumed in the world. Flax in abundance indicated the existence of an important textile industry in connection ...
— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

... the boom of the cannon, the rattle of musketry, the scream of women as the bullets whistled through the air and shells burst over their heads—all this made up a scene, dramatic and picturesque, it is true, yet full of dire confusion and Dantesque horror; for death had reaped a rich harvest, and thousands of wounded lay writhing ...
— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall

... the struggles and the agonies of death. The wounded strewed the ground—they strove to crawl from the strife of their comrades. The dead lay upon the dying, and the dying on the dead. Death had reaped a harvest from both parties; and no man could tell on which side would lie the victory. Yet no man could stand before the sword-arm of Andrew—antagonist after antagonist fell before him. He rushed to every part of the combat; and wheresoever he went, the advantage ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

... speak of our own circumstances; but you can easily see that Arne's daughter can help us greatly in one thing or another; our affairs have been going from bad to worse, and if the harvest should fail this year I should not in the least be surprised if we had to take up ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen


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