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单词 harvest home
释义

harvest homen.

Forms: Also harvest-home.
1.
a. The fact, occasion, or time of bringing home the last of the harvest; the close of the harvesting.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest home
harvest home1598
home harvest1676
maiden1806
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 34 His chin new rept, Shewd like a stubble land at haruest home.
1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires iv. 50 At Harvest-home, and on the Sheering-Day.
1757 R. Bentley & H. Walpole tr. P. Hentzner Journey into Eng. (Brand) 79 We happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home; their last load of corn they crown with flowers.
1821 L. Hunt Months in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1059 Harvest-home is still the greatest rural holiday in England.
1844 H. Alford Psalms & Hymns 147 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home.
figurative.1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. sig. I3v I haue cride haruest home of thus much iudgment In my greene sowing time.a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 265 I will vse her as the key of the Cuckoldly-rogues Coffer, & ther's my haruest-home . View more context for this quotation1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 79 Sheaves of whom are ripe to come To destruction's harvest home.
b. A shout or song of rejoicing on that occasion.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > jubilation or loud rejoicing > song or shout of jubilation > specific
Nowellc1395
harvest home1648
ziraleet1794
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Iv Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the Pipe, sing Harvest home.
1691 J. Dryden King Arthur v. i. 47 Come, my boys, come; And merrily Roar out Harvest Home.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. Introd. 4 The last blithe shout hath died upon our ear, And harvest-home hath hush'd the clanging wain.
2. The festival or merry-making to celebrate the successful homing of the corn, called in Scotland ‘the kirn’. (Now rarely held.)
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > rustic festivities
harvest home1573
maiden1806
hog-killing1817
melon feast1826
crop-over1894
1573 [see harvest-home goose n. at Compounds 2].
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S8 Thy Wakes..Thy Sheering-feast, which never faile. Thy Harvest home; thy Wassaile bowle.
1798 R. Bloomfield Summer in Farmer's Boy 290 The long-accustomed feast of Harvest-home.
1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 376/2 In England, this festival passes generally under the endeared name of Harvest-Home.
1891 Daily News 21 Sept. 3/2 I have nowhere found any survival of the old-fashioned ‘harvest home’. ‘No; it is quite gone. The Union killed that.’

Compounds

C1. harvest-home call, harvest-home song.
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1813–43 Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 19 The Suffolk peasantry use..the following Harvest-home song: Here's a health to the barley-mow!
1813–43 Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 29 This ‘Harvest-home’ Call is the one generally made use of in the county of Devon.
C2.
harvest-home goose n. a goose killed and eaten at the harvest-home feast; = harvest-goose n. at harvest n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > goose
harvest-goosec1400
goose-fleshc1425
goose1539
harvest-home goose1573
1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 13, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) For all this good feasting, yet art thou not loose til ploughman thou giuest, his haruest home goose.
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