2. Verb. (third-person singular of harvest) ¹
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Definition of Harvests
1. harvest [v] - See also: harvest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harvests
Literary usage of Harvests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps by Alexander von Humboldt (1822)
"I believe that agriculturists will peruse with pleasure the detail of these
harvests in a country situated under the same parallel as Algiers, Tunis, ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The two usual harvests, kharif in autumn, and rab'i in spring, have their ordinary
staples of ... In both harvests, much land is occupied by mixed crops. ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"Bad harvests and Agricultural Depression. The following is taken from the Times
of 7th January, 1882 :— " We have received for publication the following ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... the fruit hanging downe like Sausages) Locust, (flat, and of the forme of a
Cycle) Galls growing upon VI N 1610. Five harvests in a yeare. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... shall be entirely dependent on t;,oe harvests, and that they may be rendered
ad- q-uie to our wants I unhesitatingly recommend the »dation of the third ..."
6. A Study of Industrial Fluctuation: An Enquiry Into the Character and Causes by Dennis Holme Robertson (1915)
"harvests. THE LAW OF COMPENSATION. We have still, however, to meet the second
argument addressed against the notion of the dependence of industry in general ..."
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