harvester
Field collection machine
A harvester is a person or machine that gathers crops from fields.
The term applies broadly to anyone engaged in harvest work, but more commonly refers to agricultural machinery designed to cut and collect grain, corn, or other crops.
A combine harvester performs multiple operations—cutting, threshing, and cleaning grain—in a single pass through the field.
Harvester extends metaphorically to anything that systematically collects: data harvesters, organ harvesters.
Merge, or harvesting machine
- thresherGrain-stalk separation device
- swatherCrop-cutting field machine
- balerBundle-making farm machine
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
header · auger · conveyor · winnower · separator · chopper · cotton picker
One who gathers
- farmhandAgricultural employee
- laborerPhysical task performer
- fieldhandAgricultural worker outdoors
- migrantOne who relocates
gleaner · sharecropper · seasonal worker · fruit picker · grape picker · cotton picker · crew · bracero
Produce or relinquish
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- bushelsDry volume units
- tonnageShip's weight capacity
- balesTied agricultural packages
bundles · sheaves · produce · crop · bounty · abundance · quota · productivity
Curved hand-held harvesting blade
Post-summer cooling period
- fallDescend under gravity
- late summerSeason before fall
- ripenessReady to eat state
- maturityFull growth achieved
bounty · abundance · yield · crop rotation · growing season · first frost · equinox · Indian summer
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
- thresherGrain-stalk separation device
- swatherCrop-cutting field machine
- balerBundle-making farm machine
tractor · header · auger · conveyor · winnower · separator · chopper · cotton picker
picker
One who gathers
migrant · gleaner · sharecropper · seasonal worker · fruit picker · grape picker · cotton picker · crew · bracero · itinerant
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
rice · soybean · cotton · sorghum · millet · oats · rye · sugarcane · hay · silage
yield
Produce or relinquish
bales · bundles · sheaves · produce · crop · bounty · abundance · quota · productivity · efficiency
sickle
Curved hand-held harvesting blade
pitchfork · basket · crate · bin · blade · header · reel · tine · sieve · shaker
autumn
Post-summer cooling period
- fallDescend under gravity
- late summerSeason before fall
- ripenessReady to eat state
maturity · bounty · abundance · yield · crop rotation · growing season · first frost · equinox · Indian summer · vintage
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- collectingGathering items over time
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
winnowing · binding · shocking · gleaning · bundling · shelling · husking · stripping · picking · plucking
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, hired hand, field hand, farm laborer
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, field hand, field hands, farm hand
- farmhandsfarmhand, field hand, ranch hand, barn hand, stable hand
- plant workershorticulturist, gardener, landscaper, nurseryman, groundskeeper
- rural workerspeasant, farm laborer, farmhand, farmworker, field hand
harvesterplanter
Container for greenery
sower · seeder · seed drill · cultivator · tiller
harvesterplanter
Container for greenery
sower · replenisher · restorer · fertilizer · irrigator
- reaps the harvestGathers mature crops
- harvest moonFull moon nearest autumn equinox
- harvest timeSeason of collecting crops
- fall harvestSeasonal crop gathering
- harvest seasonPeriod for collecting crops
- seasonal harvestsPeriodically gathered agricultural produce
harvest, harvesting, harvested, harvests, harvesters, harvestable, harvestman