Word Finder - harvest

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The third season of the year; autumn; fall.

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Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.

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The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.

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The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.

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The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.

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This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.

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(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.

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A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.

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To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

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To be occupied bringing in a harvest

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Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation

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To win, achieve a gain.

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The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

That's a sign of a good harvest next year.

The snow melted, leaving in its wake a harvest of spring flowers.

Somebody will be out here trying to harvest it.

Harvest generally extends from the middle of August to near the end of September.

The million-gallon harvest of nature's heated waters was a major tourist attraction.

If at least half of the harvest in any year is destroyed by accident, the lessee (a) in the case of a lease for several years, obtains, at the end of his lease, a refund of rent, by way of indemnity, unless he has been indemnified by preceding harvests; (b) in the case of a lease for a year only, may secure a proportional abatement of the current rent.

To harvest their crops, they need equipment and suitable storage facilities.

It is suggested that Hylas was a harvest deity and that the ceremony gone through by the Kians was a harvest festival, at which the figure of a boy was thrown into the water, signifying the dying vegetation-spirit of the year.

But Turgot's worst enemy was the poor harvest of 1774, which led to a slight rise in the price of bread in the winter and early spring of 1774-1775.

In 1795, under the joint operation of a deficient harvest and the diminution in foreign supplies of grain owing to outbreak of war, the price of wheat, which, for the twenty preceding years, had been under 50s.

According to early methods of cropping, which were destined to prevail for centuries, wheat, the chief article of food, was sown in one autumn, reaped the next August; the following spring, oats or barley were sown, and the year following the harvest was a period of fallow.

During the last three years of his life John Wesley reaped the harvest he had sown.

But whichever interpretation is taken, the connexion of the festival with the harvest is only secondary.

Much advantage arises from the steam working of bastard fallows in summer, and after harvest a considerable amount of autumn cultivation can be done by steam power, thus materially lightening the work in the succeeding spring.

Unfortunately we have no rye to sell from this year's harvest.

With higher than average yields in many grape varieties, the 2004 harvest has produced a strong vintage for Denbies.

Wait until the flower heads are ready to harvest.

This is harvest thanksgiving, thanking God for the favorable conditions which have enabled the farmers to secure a good yield.

In drilled dwarf beans left weedy through to harvest yield losses can range from 0 to 90% .

Such e-mails normally have an attachment carrying a mass-mailing worm which will harvest false ' from ' addresses from your computer's address-book.

No national lands in accessible districts are available for the application of a homestead law, and the farmer too often has no interest in the land beyond the growing crops, a percentage of the harvest being the rent charged by the owner of the property.

In bad years the tiller, moreover, gives up seed corn befote beginning harvest.

The huge extent of the latzfondi, or large estates, often results in their being left in the hands of speculators, who exploit both workmen and farmers with such usury that the latter are often compelled, at the end of a scanty year, to hand over their crops to the usurers before harvest.

Thalysia, a thanksgiving festival, held in autumn after the harvest in the island of Cos (see Theocritus vii.).

After 1894, in which year the brilliant prospects of a bountiful harvest were ultimately extinguished by untimely and heavy rains, all the remaining seasons of the closing decade of the 19th century were dominated by drought.

The animal which popular belief identified with the corn demon is sometimes killed in the spring in order to mingle its blood or bones with the seed; at harvest-time it is supposed to sit in the last corn and the animals driven out from it are sometimes killed; at others the reaper who cuts the last ear is said to have killed the "wolf" or the "dog," and sometimes receives the name of "wolf" or "dog" and retains it till the next harvest.

If, on the other hand, it was, as in ancient Jewish times, the first after the earliest ears of the barley harvest would be ripe, it would have varied with the forwardness or backward If the Passover celebration could, be anticipated by one day in a private Jewish family (and we know perhaps too little of Jewish rules in the time of Christ to be able to exclude this possibility), the evidence of the synoptic Gospels would no longer conflict with that of St John.

That takes all those up into itself, outshining them in radiance and glory - just as in the last month of the rains, at harvest time, the sun, mounting up on high into the clear and cloudless sky, overwhelms all darkness in the realms 1 Questions of King Milinda, translated by Rhys Davids (Oxford, 1890-1894), vol.

Her character as a harvest goddess is clearly shown in the legend of the Calydonian boar, sent by her to ravage the fields out of resentment at not having received a harvest offering from Oeneus (see Meleager).

What if you knew exactly what to plant, when to plant it, when to harvest it?

There are burning pyres in my own backyard, because I do n't have time to gather in the harvest.

A citrus rancher named Simon Legree hires two pickers to harvest his orange crop.

Rhubarb Continue to harvest rhubarb which you have forced indoors.

But over the course of the harvest, these cherries ripen at different times - meaning they have to be tended every day.

Unfortunately we have no rye to sell from this year 's harvest.

Very salutary is an occasional hour of serene sadness, indeed a good agony will sometimes yield a grand harvest.

These crops along Oil seed rape will be cut in August, combines everywhere will be working flat out to bring in the harvest.

So why are the churches shrinking when, someone might say, the fields are white unto harvest?

Boys Skip School For Crops Boys are skiving off school - to bring in the harvest.

In Autumn, the sloe bushes provide a rich harvest for the gin drinkers.

Diversity and ecology of phototrophic sulfur bacteria [Acrobat PDF] How do purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest light?

Second swale with willow ready to harvest for hurdle making.

Turnips Begin to harvest and continue sowing turnips until the end of the month.

At the yam harvest, major festivals take place.

The visitors covered the last mile of their journey to Bures in a vintage harvest wagon, making a triumphal entry to the ground.

Viburnum opulus ' Harvest Gold ' is a very pretty deciduous shrub or small tree, with lovely yellow foliage.

Both grain and fruit harvests have been gathered as we give thanks for our harvest and acknowledge the waning power of the Sun.

In drilled dwarf beans left weedy through to harvest yield losses can range from 0 to 90 %.

Such e-mails normally have an attachment carrying a mass-mailing worm which will harvest false ' from ' addresses from your computer 's address-book.

Scientists are hoping to find ways to harvest energy more efficiently.