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harvestless

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har⋅vest

  [hahr-vist]
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–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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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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