harvestman

[ hahr-vist-muhn ]
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noun,plural har·vest·men.
  1. a person engaged in harvesting.

Origin of harvestman

1
1400–50; late Middle English. See harvest, man

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How to use harvestman in a sentence

  • When a harvestman said "Good-morning" to you on a rainy day, you always had a feeling that the sun was shining.

    Among the Meadow People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • He had not47 lived long enough in the meadow to understand all that the harvestman meant.

    Among the Meadow People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • Then the only thing a harvestman could do was to struggle and wriggle himself free, and he often broke off a leg in doing so.

    Among the Meadow People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • Little Mrs. Ladybug, who was somewhat of a gossip, discovered in some way that Daddy Longlegs was a harvestman.

    The Tale of Daddy Longlegs | Arthur Scott Bailey
  • A harvestman, for instance, lacks the waist, and its abdomen is segmented.

    Spiders | Cecil Warburton

British Dictionary definitions for harvestman

harvestman

/ (ˈhɑːvɪstmən) /


nounplural -men
  1. a person engaged in harvesting

  2. Also called (US and Canadian): daddy-longlegs any arachnid of the order Opiliones (or Phalangida), having a small rounded body and very long thin legs

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