Harvest \Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harvested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Harvesting}.] To reap or gather, as any crop.
Harvest \Har"vest\ (h[aum]r"v[e^]st), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit. Cf. {Carpet}.] 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. --Gen. viii. 22.
At harvest, when corn is ripe. --Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. --Joel iii. 13.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. --Shak.
3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. --Fuller.
The harvest of a quiet eye. --Wordsworth.
{Harvest fish} (Zo["o]l.), a marine fish of the Southern United States ({Stromateus alepidotus}); -- called {whiting} in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish.
{Harvest fly} (Zo["o]l.), an hemipterous insect of the genus {Cicada}, often called {locust}. See {Cicada}.
{Harvest lord}, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] --Tusser.
{Harvest mite} (Zo["o]l.), a minute European mite ({Leptus autumnalis}), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also {harvest louse}, and {harvest bug}.
{Harvest moon}, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.
{Harvest mouse} (Zo["o]l.), a very small European field mouse ({Mus minutus}). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants.
{Harvest queen}, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. --Milton.
{Harvest spider}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Daddy longlegs}.
The harvest has been quite good.
The department described the condition of the Kansas crop as good-to-excellent and predicted a harvest of 460.2 million bushels, a remarkable rebound from 213.6 million last year.
Felker also is interested in developing a harvester to harvest the wood to burn as fuel, as well as developing a marketing plan touting mesquite and beef.
Around the world cereals crops appear to be in generally good condition and demand for the US wheat crop is weak, with buyers sniffing at export incentives and biding their time until the harvest pushes prices lower.
A huge crowd of happy commuters gathered around the railway car flowing with Beaujolais "primeur," the first wine produced from the autumn harvest.
Since April, as drought cut into this year's harvest prospects, farm commodity prices overall have climbed 10.8 percent, according to the latest figures.
Another plan to give jobs to the unemployed in the northern village of Stadskanaal in the vital flower bulb harvest 60-miles away also failed.
In 1987, by contrast, record high yields and larger acreage pushed the total potato harvest up 7 percent to 385 million hundredweight.
Corn stockpiles are more abundant, with supplies falling to roughly 16 weeks' worth before next fall's harvest, based on current rates of use.
Military officials said the truck was traveling Friday to Santo Domingo with about 78 Haitians who had been recruited for the annual sugar harvest when it crashed in about 22 miles north of the capital.
In August, the forecast was lowered to 4.48 billion bushels, the smallest harvest since 1983, when drought and federal acreage curbs reduced output to 4.17 billion bushels.
Grain analysts predicted a sharp drop in corn futures prices after the government released a harvest projection Wednesday that exceeded nearly everyone's expectations.
The government had expected to harvest 2.7 million tons from the areas struck by the cyclone.
"What we're looking at is, rather than the agency doing that, we'll just provide an opportunity for the sportsman to harvest that bear," Talbott said.
Wind-whipped seas devastated the seaweed harvest off Wales, denying Welshmen their traditional St. David's Day breakfast delicacy of laverbread, which is made with the plant.
The newspaper Moskovskii Komsomolets headlined its main report at the weekend 'There is a harvest - but who will eat it?'. It also said that 'the statistics show that we are eating less - and not because we are worrying about our figures'.
Environmentalists are critical of the proposal because it would set minimum timber harvest levels that they argue are too high to protect the future of the old-growth forest ecosystems.
The department also cut its estimate of the Brazilian soybean harvest, which is about one-third complete, to 20 million metric tons from the 20.5 million metric tons it forecast last month.
Some analysts also are trimming the size of the harvest in Brazil.
One major crop forecasting firm was rumored to have told its clients privately that it expects a soybean harvest of 1.42 billion bushels instead of the 1.65 billion bushels that most forecasters were predicting as recently as last week.
The measure provides aid for farmers suffering crop losses of more than 35 percent of their expected harvest because of the drought or other calamities such as hail, insect damage or excessive rain.
"We are doing it now because the marijuana is about half grown," Verjes said. "It is too young to harvest, but too late in the year for the growers to get another crop planted.
Others harvest fish, pick wild berries and repair apartments in the Siberian city of Kurgan.
In recent weeks, the 16-month-old military government has said the nation of more than 25 million is experiencing only a "food gap" and predicts the coming harvest will be sufficient to prevent widespread hardships.
The Soviet Union suffers erratic domestic gasoline shortages, and Soviet television has shown farms unable to harvest grain for lack of fuel.
Overall, farmers are expected to have about 50.8 million acres of winter wheat for harvest this year, up 23 percent from 41.5 million in 1989, the board said in its report.
Corn and soybean futures finished modestly lower, partly on harvest pressure and partly in reaction to the USDA's report of larger-than-expected stocks of those commodities.
A major factor, however, is the size of the 1990 soybean harvest, currently estimated at 1.82 billion bushels, a slight decline from 1989 output.
The bumper harvest resulted from favorable growing conditions and new plantings coming into production in several countries, the department's Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report.
Kwanzaa, which means 'harvest' in Swahili, is a seven-day celebration that includes fasting, family dinners, candle-lighting ceremonies and group discussion on topics such as unity and co-operative economics.