harvestry
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]harvestry (countable and uncountable, plural harvestries)
- The act of harvesting.
- That which is harvested.
- 1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ballad written for a Bridegroom […] ”, in Poems and Ballads Second Series:
- Thus in your field my seed of harvestry
Thrives, for the fruit is like me that I set;
God bids me tend it with good husbandry;
This is the end for which we twain are met.