HARVEST

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English hervest, from Old English hærfest; akin to Latin carpere to pluck, gather, Greek karpos fruit Date: before 12th century the season for gathering in agricultural crops, the act or process of gathering in a crop, 3. a mature crop (as of grain or fruit) ; yield , the quantity of a natural product gathered in a single season , an accumulated store or productive result , II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to gather in (a crop) ; reap , to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (as salmon, oysters, or deer) for human use, sport, or population control, to remove or extract (as living cells, tissues, or organs) from culture or from a living or recently deceased body especially for transplanting, 2. to accumulate a store of , to win by achievement , intransitive verb to gather in a crop especially for food, ~able adjective ~er noun