harvest home
the bringing home of the harvest.
the time of harvesting or of gathering in the harvest.
an English festival celebrated at the close of the harvest.
a song sung as the harvest is brought home.
Origin of harvest home
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How to use harvest home in a sentence
I will simply give his account of the manner in which they celebrated what in England would be called a "harvest home."
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton RyersonAgricultural machinery has abolished the festival of the harvest home.
Trent's Last Case | E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) BentleyEverything had some reference to Hallowe'en or to harvest home, and the children were not too young to appreciate this.
Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn WellsIt has its origin in the casual ribaldry of the uindemiatores: in the rudely improvized dramatic contests of the harvest-home.
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse | VariousIt was such weather as we have at "harvest home," and it was truly a "harvest home" throughout the whole Vega.
Mexico and its Religion | Robert A. Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for harvest home
the bringing in of the harvest
mainly British a harvest supper
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