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noun / verb

harvest

HAR-vist/ˈhɑːrvɪst/

To gather mature crops for practical use.

Two farm workers harvest ripe pumpkins and load a cart.

Two farm workers gather ripe pumpkins from a cultivated patch into a low cart already piled with harvested pumpkins, showing both crop gathering and the gathered yield.
Etymology
harvestOld Englishautumn

Old English hærfest primarily named autumn, with crop gathering only implied. The season name came to mean the time of gathering crops, then the gathering itself and the crops gathered.

In context

NDSUExtension31:14
after the first harvest I highly recommend that we we bury the old crop debris
Extending the Growing Season and Putting the Garden to Bed

More examples

  • The wheat harvest begins in late July.
  • We harvested the tomatoes before the first frost.
  • She spends the morning harvesting beans for dinner.

Forms

harvest · harvests · harvested · harvesting

harvester noun — A person or machine that gathers crops.

Similar words

reap
Usually emphasizes cutting and gathering grain rather than other crops.
pick
Emphasizes removing individual fruits or vegetables from plants.