Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who harvests.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A laborer in harvest.
  • noun A harvester, shepherd-spider, gray-bear, or daddy-long-legs; an arachnidan, such as those of the genus Phalangium, having a very small globose body with long slim legs. Also harvest-spider.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man engaged in harvesting.
  • noun (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs, 1.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest.
  • noun An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

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Examples

  • The daddy long-leg spider (Pholcidae) is often confused with the "harvestman" (Opiliones) which can also be called a daddy long-leg.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The first "daddy long-legs" is actually a harvestman, or Opilione.

    Flattened fauna of sidewalks - Part 3 AYDIN 2008

  • A number of other invertebrate species, including beetles, harvestman, spiders, millipedes, and freshwater mussels are specialists on habitats modified by old Redwood and other conifer forests and maintain very local distributions.

    Northern California coastal forests 2008

  • Several of the only known localities for endemic harvestman, spiders, land snails, and other invertebrates have been heavily altered or lost through logging within the last decade, and the current status of these species is unknown.

    Klamath-Siskiyou forests 2008

  • Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • It dropped into the mist: a large chrome harvestman spider … a dead one.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Fact: There are several spiders that have been branded with this nickname—the harvestman, the crane fly and the pholcid house spider.

    The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006

  • Fact: There are several spiders that have been branded with this nickname—the harvestman, the crane fly and the pholcid house spider.

    The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006

  • Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Reph'a-im.

    Isaiah 17. 1999

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