Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time of gathering the harvest; the bringing home of the harvest; hence, any opportunity for making advantage or gain.
- noun A festival held by the English peasantry in August in honor of the homing of the harvest.
- noun The song sung at this festival.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.
- noun The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.
- noun A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
- noun The opportunity of gathering treasure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the gathering of a ripened crop
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Examples
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By lucky chance we fell in with the country-folk celebrating their harvest-home.
Halegmonath (September): the early English calendar Carla 2008
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By lucky chance we fell in with the country-folk celebrating their harvest-home.
Archive 2008-09-01 Carla 2008
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As Jeanie entered she heard first the air, and then a part of the chorus and words, of what had been, perhaps, the song of a jolly harvest-home.
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O baleful Envy! thou self-tormenting fiend! how dost thou predominate in all assemblies, from the grand gala of a court, to the meeting of simple peasants at their harvest-home!
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I danced with him last harvest-home; I know not why, unless for sheer good-nature; and now, forsooth, I am to have Boullin for ever thrust in my teeth.
La Vend�e 2004
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The festival of Saturnus himself occurred on December 17th, and was a barbarous and joyous harvest-home, a time of absolute relaxation and unrestrained merriment, when distinctions of rank were forgotten, and crowds thronged the streets crying, _Io Saturnalia!
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Later, the harvest-home and the dance in green or barn when I was at almost my man's height, with the pluck to put a bare lip to its apprenticeship on a woman's cheek; the songs at _ceilidh_ fires, the telling of _sgeulachdan_ and fairy tales up on the mountain sheiling ----
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Of course he did; and so did I; for these faulty hearts of ours cannot turn perfect in a night, but need frost and fire, wind and rain, to ripen and make them ready for the great harvest-home.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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And so the good harvest was gathered in, and then, when the last sheaf was set up, and the laden waggon went slowly away from the bare fields, the harvest-home was celebrated.
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The tattered remnant of a single bunch was all my harvest-home.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
qms commented on the word harvest-home
The harvesters in from the gloam,
Kids bright from the scrub and the comb.
The windows alight
Bejewel the night
As darkness enfolds harvest-home.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
November 24, 2016