harvest
/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ noun A2- The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. · The constant rain made the harvest a nightmare this year.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits. · This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.
- The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences. · The surveillance mission yielded a healthy harvest of intel.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
Plural harvests
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A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry western hills and whistling through the poplars.
Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed.
It was delightful to rattle along over the moist roads in the early red sunlight that was creeping across the shorn harvest fields.
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
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