harvester

Meaning

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
3. A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
4. A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
5. A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
7. (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).

Synonyms

reaper

picker

combine harvester

combine

gatherer

reaping machine

mower

cropper

harvestman

vegetable harvester

thresher

harvester industry

laborer

farm hand worker

harvesting machinery

pick device

harvesting machine

grass cutter

harvesting implements

witness to truth of someone’s statement

farmhand

plucker

Translations

moissonneuse

moissonneur

récolteur

mietitore

segador

cosechadora

mietitrice

messor

θεριστική μηχανή

Erntemaschine

biçerdöver

Erntearbeiter

mietitrice meccanica

segador

Etymology

From harvest + -er.