Etymology : Middle English hervest, from Old English hærfest; akin to Latin carpere to pluck, gather, Greek karpos fruit
Pronunciation : 'här-v&st
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. reaping, gathering in of crops; time of the year when crops are gathered; amount of crops gathered in a season; outcome, product. reap, gather in ripe crops; catch, gather (fish). harvest\har"vest\ , n. [oe. harvest, hervest, as. h?rfest autumn; akin to lg. harfst, d. herfst, ohg. herbist, g. herbst, and prob. to l. carpere to pluck, gr. fruit. cf. carpet.].
2. 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.
3. at harvest, when corn is ripe.
4. 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. iii.
5. to glean the broken ears after the man that the main harvest reaps.
6. the product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. the pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. the harvest of a quiet eye.harvest fish (zo?l.), a marine fish of the southern united states (stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in virginia. also applied to the dollar fish.harvest fly (zo?l.), an hemipterous insect of the genus cicada, often called locust. see:
cicada.harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [obs.]harvest mite (zo?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 bugharvest 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?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.harvest spider. (zo?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.harvest n.
7. the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop].
8. the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love".
9. the gathering of a ripened crop [syn: harvesting, harvest home ].
10. the season for gathering crops [syn: harvest time] gather, as of as crops [syn: reap, glean]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.
11. (see:
agriculture.).
12. 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.
13. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain , or fruit.
14. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
15. To reap or gather, as any crop. the season for gathering crops the gathering of a ripened crop the consequence of an effort or activity; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love" remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals".
16. 1. The harvest is the gathering of a crop. There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.
17. A harvest is the crop that is gathered in. Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.
18. When you harvest a crop, you gather it in. Many farmers are refusing to harvest the cane. freshly harvested beetroot. + harvesting har·vest·ing war is hampering harvesting and the distribution of food aid. to gather crops from the fields.