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harvester

American  
[hahr-vuh-ster] / ˈhɑr və stər /

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 British  
/ ˈhɑːvɪstə /

noun

  1. a person who harvests

  2. a harvesting machine, esp a combine harvester

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of harvester

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

Example Sentences

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Mr Aird's combine harvester will, weather willing, be harvesting all day, live on the website.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025

The festival organiser from Brecon said the sky "turned brown" with the wasps after a local farmer's combine harvester disturbed a nest in a field.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

To avoid that, their energy harvester operating system in the microcontroller automatically adjusts or reduces the harvest if the amount of stored energy becomes excessive.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

An average harvester would gather about 400 metric tons of nodules per hour from the CCZ floor; that's 67,000 metric tons per week.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Ton- Ton pulled the arm up and over the top of the shrimp harvester, folding it into the storage position.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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