Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without harvest.
Etymologies
Examples
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In some harvestless dim field where no evening lets fall her mantle; nor sun rises.
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Certainly no reproach to him; he had shared, it seemed, the short commons on which the unfortunate fen-dwellers had had to survive during this harvestless year of oppression.
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'Tis like the sea stretching away for ever in harvestless waves. '
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Below her the barren moorlands spread away -- 'harvestless as ocean' -- till they met the whitelands of the further fells, where wandering sheep sought their living.
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And, adding to their present misery, the thrifty, provident squaws saw another harvestless summer passing and
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The scene is a tawny desert, once sown to oases of flowers, and billowing grain, and stately palm-tree, and olive-groves, now harvestless, flowerless, palmless.
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We suffer from the miasma of the Indian jungles; we starve with the savages of the harvestless islands; we grow weak with the abused peasants of the Russian steppes, who leave us the legacy of their grippe.
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France watered in ceaseless streams the arid, harvestless fields of northern Africa.
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