I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a harvest moon (= the full moon that appears in late September or early October )
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Over the potato fields a harvest moon was rising.
bumper crop/harvest
harvest festival
harvest/bring in a crop
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Brazil's coffee crop begins to be harvested in May.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bumper
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Without a bumper harvest , refinancing will saddle many farmers with more debt that they can handle.
■ NOUN
festival
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To my surprise, she had never heard of harvest festivals .
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Sunday, the following afternoon, the three of us went to a harvest festival at the Athens Fairgrounds.
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It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
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People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance.
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October2000 Many Churches hold a harvest festival at this time of the year.
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One of the courgettes has been allowed to grow into a marrow, ready for our own harvest festival .
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One time the father was away on business, and the stepmother went out to a harvest festival .
grain
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The world grain harvest during 1992 is expected to be the lowest for five years at 686 pounds per person.
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The Soviet Union had a near-record grain harvest of 236m tonnes.
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On Nov. 1 it was officially announced that the grain harvest had amounted to a record 240 million tonnes.
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The grain harvest reached a record 407,900,000 tonnes, 600,000 tonnes over the previous all-time high of 1984.
grape
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It was estimated that 20 percent of the grape harvest had been lost.
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Despite an 11 percent increase in the 1995 California grape harvest , wine prices for consumers will still go up.
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We have seasons that seem to revolve round the grape harvest .
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But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand, grape prices continue to increase.
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August brought the grape harvest , centered in Fresno.
rice
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An excellent rice harvest caused prices to plummet by 40 %.
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You should go at rice harvest , she said.
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The busiest time of the year is the rice harvest , if the crop is good that is.
season
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He was beset by difficulties; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season .
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It was the hog-butchering season , a time of communal festivals which ended the long harvest season.
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For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season .
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Exempt farmers from federal hours-of-service rules for truck drivers during harvest season .
time
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In the Northern California wine country at harvest time , we favor soaked grapevines added to the coals for our fuel source.
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Harvesting and storing Our simple tips on handling and storage at harvest time , the most satisfying season for the kitchen gardener.
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A lot of men were in this country at that time of the year; it was harvest time.
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You can imagine: old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time .
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By harvest time , the agave is almost hollow inside.
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The way the year is running we could have a drought at midwinter and snowdrops at harvest time .
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Her chief festival, of course, came at the harvest time .
wheat
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This led to a famine and a delay in the wheat harvest of 2 months.
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By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported.
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At last the green straw, which had plagued wheat harvest from the start, had disappeared.
■ VERB
bring
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For how are we to bring in the corn harvest with all those strong hands and strong arms gone?
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August brought the grape harvest , centered in Fresno.
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The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood on to the Reach.
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I mean, how many would-be students are actually bringing in the harvest at this moment?
reap
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In the spring you reap the harvest - or not as the case might be.
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And with his prosthetic hand, Harrelson reaps a harvest of bad sight gags.
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In the past few years dedicated search projects in the United States have reaped a harvest of the skies.
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The gaoler, however, reaped a rich harvest , charging his clients for food, ale, even water.
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I know we have the right team for 1992 so let's reap the harvest that is due to us.
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He was reaping the harvest he had sown.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a result of several bumper harvests, the country now has a grain surplus.
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Even the youngest children would come and help to get the harvest in.
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It should be a good harvest this year.
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September is usually harvest time.
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The harvest is usually ready in July or August.
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The heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year.
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the wheat harvest
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This year's olive harvest was the best since the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As California's harvests begin next month, Juan's plight will highlight a nation's shame.
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Meanwhile the domestic harvest continues apace, with 72 % of the crop gathered.
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Recent harvests have been short and not enough trees have been planted for the future.
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Slower varieties maturing in two months or more need to be sown in July to ensure a lengthy October harvest .
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Spraying is necessary, particularly against fungal diseases, to have a decent harvest of nice-looking fruit every year.
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The harvest was reported on Sept. 19 as being 40,000,000 tonnes down on the amount at the same time in 1990.
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The main harvest will be in July and August, however.
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Who is the firstfruit of a harvest of blessings to come?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crop
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Be ready to harvest crops from April.
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Time allowed 07:47 Read in studio A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat.
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Recent photo opportunities have shown both candidates replicating famous Benito Mussolini images of harvesting crops and embracing children.
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However, these small signs of infection would have arrived far too late for many early harvested commercial crops .
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Surely it can only harvest a crop of bald heads as human beings tear out their hair over it?
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Occasionally we'd harvest the lighter crops , like sweet potatoes or chillis.
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A good solution is to harvest the crop early in September, storing the tubers out of harms way.
wheat
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Read in studio Farmers say that this month's heavy rain has stopped them harvesting much of their wheat .
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Time allowed 07:47 Read in studio A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Harvest tip Instead of harvesting the whole cabbage, cut the head leaving a short stump.
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And like the swallows that harvest the thin fields of air, we must become harvesters of ever more intangible fields.
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Cantaloupes needed to be harvested in the Imperial Valley in May.
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Despite increases in yield per acre, that has led to a steady decline in the amount of dates harvested.
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For Ken Stanier, who's been harvesting apples for 40 years, it's good news.
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Key to the measures is testing for the fungus before each field is harvested.
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Once again this autumn, I lost the race with the squirrels to harvest the hazel nuts.
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The group scatters to harvest the guavas.