harvester

English

A potato harvester

Etymology

From harvest +‎ -er.

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
3. (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees
4. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
5. A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
7. (Ireland) finnock (a young sea trout)

a harvester butterfly

Derived terms

• harvester-thresher
• harvester ant
• harvester butterfly
• combine harvester (common short form: combine)

Translations

person who gathers the harvest

• Arabic: حَصَّاد m (ḥaṣṣād)
• Bulgarian: жътвар m (žǎtvar)
• Catalan: colliter m
• Finnish: sadonkorjaaja
• French: moissonneur (fr) m, moissonneuse (fr) f
• Gallo: faouchou m
• German: Erntehelfer (de) m, Erntehelferin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: θεριστής m (theristḗs)

• Irish: buainteoir m, fómharaí m
• Italian: mietitore (it), raccoglitore (it), vendemmiatore, falciatore (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pale (ku) m or f

• Latin: messor m
• Macedonian: же́твар (mk) m (žétvar), же́тварка f (žétvarka)
• Russian: жнец (ru) m (žnec), жни́ца (ru) f (žníca)
• Volapük: klopan, hiklopan (male), jiklopan (female)

machine that harvests

• Arabic: حَصَّادَة f (ḥaṣṣāda)
• Bulgarian: жътварка f (žǎtvarka)
• Catalan: recol·lectora f
• Finnish: elonkorjuukone
• French: moissonneuse (fr) f
• German: Ernter m, Vollernter m
• Hungarian: aratógép (hu)
• Irish: buainteoir m
• Italian: mietitrice (it) f, fienatrice f
• Macedonian: же́тварка f (žétvarka)
• Norman: avouôteux m, dgèrbeux m, scieux m
• Portuguese: ceifeira (pt) f, gadanheira (pt) f, segadeira (pt) f
• Russian: жне́йка (ru) f (žnéjka), жа́тка (ru) f (žátka)
• Spanish: cosechadora (es) f
• Turkish: biçerdöver (tr)
• Welsh: cynaeafydd m

forestry machine

• Finnish: harvesteri (fi)

See also

• gatherer, gleaner, picker, reaper

Anagrams

• Everharts, reharvest