Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or industry of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of harvesting.
  • noun That which is harvested.

Etymologies

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harvest +‎ -ry?

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Examples

  • It was an evening in August, with wheat fields ripening to their harvestry – a soft violet night made for love, with the distant murmur of an unquiet sea on a rocky shore sounding through it.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910

  • It was an evening in August, with wheat fields ripening to their harvestry -- a soft violet night made for love, with the distant murmur of an unquiet sea on a rocky shore sounding through it.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard 1908

  • It was cool after a hot day, and wheat fields all about us were ripening to their harvestry.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • Cali's just too big for cannabis to be a cure-all; Oregon might have a shot at making this the kind of lifeblood industry that lumber harvestry used to be.

    BlueOregon 2009

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