harvest

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har⋅vest

[hahr-vist]

–noun

1.	Also, har⋅vest⋅ing. the gathering of crops.

2.	the season when ripened crops are gathered.

3.	a crop or yield of one growing season.

4.	a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.

5.	the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to gather (a crop or the like); reap.

7.	to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.

8.	to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).

9.	to catch, take, or remove for use: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

–verb (used without object)

10.	to gather a crop; reap.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE hærfest; c. G Herbst autumn; akin to harrow ¹

Related forms:

har⋅vest⋅a⋅ble, adjective

har⋅vest⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

har⋅vest⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
3. See crop. 5. accumulation, collection, product, return, proceeds.

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har·vest (här'vĭst)

The act or process of gathering a crop.
1. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
2. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
3. The time or season of such gathering.
The result or consequence of an activity.

v. har·vest·ed, har·vest·ing, har·vests

v. tr.

1. To gather (a crop).
2. To take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control.
3. To extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow.
To gather a crop from.
To receive (the benefits or consequences of an action). See Synonyms at reap.

v. intr.
To gather a crop.

[Middle English, from Old English hærfest; see kerp- in Indo-European roots.]
har'vest·a·ble adj., har'vest·a·bil'i·ty n.

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Harvest

Har"vest\, n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. ? fruit. Cf. Carpet.]

1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. --Gen viii. 22.

At harvest, when corn is ripe. --Tyndale.

2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath??ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. --Joel iii. 13.

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. --Shak.

3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. --Fuller.

The harvest of a quiet eye. --Wordsworth.

Harvest fish (Zo["o]l.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.

Harvest fly (Zo["o]l.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada.

Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] --Tusser.

Harvest mite (Zo["o]l.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug.

Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.

Harvest mouse (Zo["o]l.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.

Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. --Milton.

Harvest spider. (Zo["o]l.) See Daddy longlegs.

Harvest

Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.] To reap or gather, as any crop.

Language Translation for : harvest

Spanish: cosecha,

German: die Ernte,

Japanese: 収穫

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harvest

O.E. hærfest "autumn," from P.Gmc. *kharbitas (cf. O.S. hervist, Du. herfst, Ger. Herbst "autumn," O.N. haust "harvest"), from PIE *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (cf. Skt. krpana- "sword," krpani "shears;" Gk. karpos "fruit," karpizomai "make harvest of;" L. carpere "to cut, divide, pluck;" Lith. kerpu "cut;" M.Ir. cerbaim "cut"). The borrowing of autumn and fall gradually focused its meaning after 14c. from "the time of gathering crops" to the action itself and the product of the action. Harvester "machine for reaping and binding" is from 1875; harvest home (1596) is the occasion of bringing home the last of the harvest; harvest moon (1706) is that which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox.

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Harvest

the season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commenced (Lev. 23:9-14; 2 Sam. 21:9, 10; Ruth 2:23). It began with the feast of Passover and ended with Pentecost, thus lasting for seven weeks (Ex. 23:16). The harvest was a season of joy (Ps. 126:1-6; Isa. 9:3). This word is used figuratively Matt. 9:37; 13:30; Luke 10:2; John 4:35. (See AGRICULTURE.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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