Word Meanings - HARVESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A harvesting ant. (more info) 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

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• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• HARVEST-HOME
  1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. 2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. 3. A service
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• HARVESTRY
  The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• HARVESTMAN
  See 1 (more info) 1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• HARVEST
  LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. Seedtime and harvest . . . shall
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• HARVESTLESS
  Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.