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harvester|ˈhɑːvɪstə(r)|
[f. harvest v.]
1. A reaper.
1589Peele Eglogue Gratulatorie Wks. (Rtldg.) 562/2. 1595 ― Old Wives T. ibid. 452/1 Soft, who have we here? our amorous harvesters [Qo. haruest starres]. 1621Quarles Div. Poems, Esther (1638) 91 The Harvester with bubling brow Reaping the interest of his painefull plough. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 243 The French ladies..are fond of habiting themselves as harvesters. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Harvesters' disease, Duclaux's term for a disorder to which persons working out of doors in the hot summer of 1859 were subject.
2. Applied to various insects:
a. = harvesting ant.
b. ‘A harvest-man, daddy-long-legs’ (Funk).
c. A harvest-bug.
1882Romanes Anim. Intell. 97 The following points of interest in the habits of the European harvesters [ants].
3. A reaping machine; esp. one which also binds up the sheaves. Also, a machine for gathering in any particular crop, as a cane harvester. harvester cutter, one of the section knives of a harvester; harvester-thresher, a machine for both harvesting and threshing. Cf. combine harvester.
1848U.S. Pat. 21 Nov., Harvester. 1851C. Cist Sk. Cincinnati 161 Harvesters and mowing-machines. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Harvester, an American machine for cutting clover and timothy seed, &c. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Harvester-cutter grinder, a machine adapted to the grinding of the section knives of harvesters, which are riveted to the knife-bar. 1882Advance (Chicago) 17 Aug. 524 With the extensive Harvester Works ..and other manufactories building. 1884Pall Mall G. 5 Dec. 2/2 The price of sheaf-binding harvesters. 1893Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Dec. 702 Trials of Self-binding Harvesters. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Apr. 1/3 Large shipments of harvester machinery are arriving from overseas points. 1929Newman & Blackaby (title) Report of the trials of the combined harvester-thresher in Wiltshire, 1928. 1950Engineering 17 Nov. 391/3 Attempts to solve the potato-harvester problem. 1971Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 83/3 One man with the buckrake comfortably kept pace with a double-chop harvester. |