harvestry

English

Etymology

From harvest +‎ -ry.[1]

Noun

harvestry (countable and uncountable, plural harvestries)

  1. The act of harvesting.
  2. 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.

References

  1. ^ “harvestry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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