harvester

noun 5

Definitions

noun

A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.

A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.

A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.

Collocations

ADJ.

behind

VERB + HARVESTER

combine, walking

HARVESTER + NOUN

machine, straw

PREP.

onto

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

reaper

noun — someone who helps to gather the harvest

reaper

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

"It's war," said the Grim Reaper and put his scythe aside to get onto the combine harvester.

Tatoeba · #3465303

Earlier this month [October], you'd have found him walking behind a harvester machine, a straw hat shading his face.

Tatoeba · #12113887

Usage Notes

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