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Definition of Harvest home
1. Noun. The gathering of a ripened crop.
Generic synonyms: Gather, Gathering
Specialized synonyms: Haying
Derivative terms: Harvest, Harvest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harvest Home
Literary usage of Harvest home
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1846)
"OUR copy of this song is taken from one in the Roxburgh Collection, where it is
called, The Country Farmer's vain glory ; in a new song of harvest home, ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Indeed, the harvest-home of Old England was obviously and beyond question a piece
of natural religion, an ebullition of jocund gratitude to the divine ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"harvest home And now 'twas in the time of golden grain, We saw the peasants hasten
o'er the ... harvest home."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"Our oats they are hoed, and our barley's reaped, Our hay is mowed, and our hovels
heaped ; harvest home ! harvest home ! We'll merrily roar out our harvest ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"harvest home." Assist me now, thou Coila-christen'd muse. Who could'st o'er rustic
board a charm diffuse— Assign to chieftain worth a chieftain place, ..."
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