hairst

As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female labourers have to make the best of it in the barn.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female laborers have to make the best of it in the barn.

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

Many a ploughman delves his way to and from them still in all weathers, when the snow is on the ground; at the time of "hairst," and when the turnip "shaws" have just forced themselves through the earth, looking like straight rows of green needles.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Many a ploughman delves his way to and from them still in all weathers, when the snow is on the ground; at the time of "hairst," and when the turnip "shaws" have just forced themselves through the earth, looking like straight rows of green needles.

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

"Robin shure in hairst" [which originally had it own tune, which can still be found] in The Scot Musical Museum, no. 543, and "Cam ye o'er frae France."

The Rakes of Stony Batter [Bob and Joan] 1975

Since the first hairst I shore, since the first clod I cuist;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering,

A Lament for Flodden 1919

'Ae hairst afore the Sherra-moor, -- [One harvest, Sherriffmuir]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

It is grand weather for the hairst, but here that's no till the hinner end o 'September, and at the best it's a bit scart o' aits. '

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Man, Drumsheugh, ye micht wile him aff tae the saut water atween the neeps and the hairst.

A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878