harvest-fieldn.
A field in which the corn is being reaped or gathered in; a cornfield in harvest. Also transferred and figurative.
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1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 139 Thus to pick The very refuse of those harvest-fields.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 99 The great harvest-field of American whalers.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 113 My brother James is in the harvest-field.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 41 Like the harvest-field, when west winds stoop suddenly from above.
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