harvestern.
/ˈhɑːvɪstə/ 1. A reaper.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower
reapmanOE
reaperOE
mower1225
shearer1318
puller1332
winner1352
repstera1450
harvestman1552
scytheman1577
harvester1589
sickler1638
messor1656
cradler1766
grass mower1779
thraver1813
reapa1825
bagger1844
cradle-man1889
1589 G. Peele Eglogue Gratulatorie in Wks. (1861) 562/2.
1595 G. Peele Old Wiues Tale in Wks. (1861) 452/1 Soft, who have we here? our amorous harvesters [Qo. haruest starres].
1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems (1638) 91 The Harvester with bubling brow Reaping the interest of his painefull plough.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 243 The French ladies..are fond of habiting themselves as harvesters.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 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.
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1882 G. J. Romanes Animal Intelligence iii. 97 The following points of interest in the habits of the European harvesters [ants].
b. ‘A harvest-man, daddy-long-legs’ (Funk).
c. A harvest-bug.
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 n. one of the section knives of a harvester. harvester-thresher n. a machine for both harvesting and threshing. Cf. combine harvester n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > reaping-machine
reaping machine1766
reaper1844
harvester1848
rotoscythe1933
1848 U.S. Pat. 21 Nov. Harvester.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 161 Harvesters and mowing-machines.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Harvester, an American machine for cutting clover and timothy seed, &c.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Harvester-cutter grinder, a machine adapted to the grinding of the section knives of harvesters, which are riveted to the knife-bar.
1882 Advance (Chicago) 17 Aug. 524 With the extensive Harvester Works ..and other manufactories building.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Dec. 2/2 The price of sheaf-binding harvesters.
1893 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 4 702 Trials of Self-binding Harvesters.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Apr. 1/3 Large shipments of harvester machinery are arriving from overseas points.
1929 Newman & Blackaby (title) Report of the trials of the combined harvester-thresher in Wiltshire, 1928.
1950 Engineering 17 Nov. 391/3 Attempts to solve the potato-harvester problem.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 83/3 One man with the buckrake comfortably kept pace with a double-chop harvester.
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