harvest monthn.
The month during which the harvest is gathered in; originally (like German herbstmonat, Icelandic haustmánuðr) a name of September; but in Robert of Gloucester of August.
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c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) ix. 43 September, hærfestmonoð.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 61 Þe nexte moneþ afturward, þat heruest moneþ ys, He let clepe aftur hym August y wys.
1826 in Hone's Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1155 Had my journey taken place during the present harvest month.
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