harvest

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The time for the harvest was at hand, and there would be few to gather it in.

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  1. noun The act or process of gathering a crop.
  2. noun The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
  3. noun The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.

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  • He enjoyed the drive in mellow sunshine, the fields still covered with golden stubble, though the harvest was all in, the sky the deep blue of early autumn, the chestnut trees beginning to turn. —  A Hydra with Six Heads - Josephine Bell - 1970
  • So Ned worked early and late, and as soon as the harvest was all in, he claimed the promised boon. —  The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
  • Our friends seemed pleased to see us, and Nimok apologized for so few of his people being present, as the harvest was approaching; but being anxious to give a feast on the occasion of my first visit to their tribe, it was arranged that to-morrow I should shoot deer, and the day following return to the mountain. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • Such a harvest was as if a man had gone round his farm with the sun in one hand and the watering-pot in the other! —  Round About a Great Estate
  • One must just learn to forget, and be as if one had never dreamed," but Carmichael looked at Marget wistfully Ye canna be the same again, for a' coont, gin ony man loves a wumman wi' a leal hert, whether she answer or no, or whether she even kens, he 's been the gainer, an' the harvest will be his for ever It hes seemed to me that nae luve is proved an' crooned for eternity onless the man hes forgotten himsel' an' is willin' tae live alane gin the wumman he luves sees prosperity. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
 

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crop ·  fruit ·  seed ·  production ·  cultivation ·  corn ·  growth ·  autumn ·  season ·  produce ·  summer ·  feast

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harvest:   harvesting ·  harvests ·  harvested
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hærfest; see kerp- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. English dial. and Scots contr. harrest, harst, hairst, from Middle English harvest, hervest, herfest, harvest, autumn, from Anglo-Saxon hærfest, autumn (as one of the four seasons lencten, sumor, hærfest, winter, without reference, except by implication, to the gathering of crops), = Dutch herfst, Old Dutch also harvest, autumn, = Old High German herbist, Middle High German herbest, autumn, harvest, German herbst, autumn, dial. harvest, vintage. The Scandinavian forms are contracted (in such a way as to suggest a conformation to Old French Aoust, August, also harvest-time, Breton cost = Dutch oogst, harvest, from Latin Augustus, August): Icelandic haust = Swedish Danish höst, autumn. The fact that harvest in its earliest use (Anglo-Saxon) had no direct reference to the gathering of crops (see above) is against the current association of the word with L. carpere, pluck, Greek καρπός, fruit.
  2. from Middle English hervesten = OD). herfsten = German herbsten, draw near autumn, dial. harvest, = Icelandic hausta, draw near autumn, = Swedish hösta = Danish höste, harvest; from the noun.
 

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