harvester

[ hahr-vuh-ster ]

noun

1. a person who harvests; reaper.
2. any of various farm machines for harvesting field crops.
3. an orange-brown butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, the larvae of which are predacious on aphids.

harvester

/ ˈhɑːvɪstə /

noun

1. a person who harvests
2. a harvesting machine, esp a combine harvester

Word History and Origins

Origin of harvester¹

First recorded in 1580–90; harvest + -er ¹

Example Sentences

They experimented with whole stalks, as are burned in the Florida fields during the harvest, and with the outer leaves, which some harvesters elsewhere in the world remove using blades and burn off-site.

From ProPublica

The characters meet food producers, like Indigenous salt harvesters in Peru, and cook with famous chefs from José Andrés to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’s own Samin Nosrat.

From Time

Behind that goes a pickup machine, or a harvester, that picks them up off the ground, separates the dirt, sticks, and leaves, and puts them into trailers, leaving them much cleaner than what got picked up off the ground.

From MIT Technology Review

All scallop harvesters should check carefully with local and state marine officials to learn if scallops are safe to harvest and eat in their area.

From Popular-Science

It had taken years to get the harvester right — mostly because they first had to get the tomato right, breeding a new variety that could withstand the rough treatment of the mechanical harvester.

From Freakonomics

If a man has hired a harvester, he shall give him eight gur of corn per year.

From Project Gutenberg

And yet there is a new type of harvester that has been used in San Joaquin valley, California.

From Project Gutenberg

One day a harvester who ventured far up a shallow brook was captured by a grizzly bear.

From Project Gutenberg

The self-binding harvester was borne on the shoulders of the Marsh harvester.

From Project Gutenberg

Combined harvester and thresher—Matteson, United States, 1886.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• grower
• laborer
• peasant
• producer
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