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harvester

9 2.0
A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑrvɪstər/
translation icon : cosechadora
  • The combine harvester quickly gathered the wheat from the field during the harvest season.
  • combine harvester
  • local harvesters

So I was like I would have to overtake horses, tractors, combine harvesters.

Examples

  • Suddenly, they see a John Deere harvester bearing down on them.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Most conventionally grown cotton uses a spindle harvester that has many rotating barbed spindles.

    Academic text (2000)

  • This is a clay harvester of my own design.

    Crimson Peak (2015)

  • "Did your father's corn harvester have anything on it that looked like this?"

    Fiction book (1993)

  • A giant combine harvester cuts a wide swathe through a field of high corn.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Around the year 2000, we traded an old Braud harvester for the new Saphyre series.

    Blog text (13)

  • Chronic fuel shortages mean that this could be one of the last times tractors and combine harvesters are used in Britain.

    Threads (1984)

  • Farmers hired several harvesters to help collect the crops before the rain arrived.

  • The new harvester model increased efficiency, allowing us to finish the harvest much earlier.

Synonyms

picker
vsharvester
20 1.4

A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit

covers both people and machines that gather crops at harvest time
gatherer
vsharvester
19 3.2

A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living

is specific to gathering ripe crops during the harvest period
combine
vsharvester
6 6.1

A large farm machine that harvests and cleans grain as it moves across a field

performs only the gathering role without the extra threshing and cleaning steps
reaper
vsharvester
  • Archaic
3 5.2

A machine that cuts and gathers crops on a farm

is any person or machine that gathers crops at harvest time
binder
vsharvester
  • Archaic
1 7.5

A machine that cuts grain and ties it into bundles

is more general, not limited to cutting and bundling steps
cropper
vsharvester
1 7.5

A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants

focuses narrowly on the act or machine that gathers crops
windrower
vsharvester
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A machine that cuts crops and lays them in rows to dry

is concerned with final gathering of crops rather than precollection drying
sickler
vsharvester
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who cuts grain by hand with a sickle

is broader, including modern machines as well as hand methods
swather
vsharvester
  • Specialized
8.6

A machine or person that cuts crops and puts them in rows to dry

is about taking crops in at harvest rather than preparing them to dry
farm machine
vsharvester
2.7

A vehicle like a tractor that helps plow, plant, or harvest crops on a farm

refers specifically to the role or machine that gathers crops at harvest time

How Big

combine
6 6.1
harvester
9 2.0
reaper
  • Archaic
7 5.5
scythe
12 6.7
sickle
21 5.6

Surface Forms

harvester singular
harvesters plural

Morphology

harvester = harvest (transparent) = harvest + er

Straightforward agent/instrument formation from the verb 'harvest' (one who or that which harvests).

Etymology

Harvester comes from the word harvest, which once meant 'autumn' and then 'gathering crops', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a harvester is 'one who gathers' the crops, whether a person or a machine.