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Nov 29, 2009
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har•vest



Pronunciation: (här'vist), [key]
—n.
1. Also,har'vest•ing.the gathering of crops.
2. the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3. a crop or yield of one growing season.
4. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.
5. the result or consequence of any act, process, or event: The journey yielded a harvest of wonderful memories.

—v.t.
1. to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
2. to gather the crop from: to harvest the fields.
3. to gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
4. to catch, take, or remove for use: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.

—v.i.
to gather a crop; reap.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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