Meaning

7 senses
  1. (dated)A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

    Erntehelfer, Erntehelferin

    жнецžnec, жни́цаžníca

    someone who helps to gather the harvest

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

    Ernter, Vollernter

    жне́йкаžnéjka, жа́ткаžátka

    farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

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

  4. A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.

  5. 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.

  6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.

  7. (Ireland)A finnock (a young sea trout).

Examples

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

    de„Es ist Krieg“, sagte der Tod, stellte seine Sense in die Ecke und stieg auf den Mähdrescher.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
person who gathers the harvest:
machine that harvests:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
person who gathers the harvest:
machine that harvests:

Origin

From harvest + -er.

From harvest + -er.

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Forms

plural: harvesters
Singularharvester
Pluralharvesters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields:reaper
  • someone who helps to gather the harvest:reaper

Word family

17 related words

See also

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