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Definition of "harvest-home" [har•vest-home]

  • The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. (noun)
  • The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. (noun)
  • A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. (noun)
  • The opportunity of gathering treasure. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "harvest-home" in a sentence
  • "By lucky chance we fell in with the country-folk celebrating their harvest-home."
  • "As Jeanie entered she heard first the air, and then a part of the chorus and words, of what had been, perhaps, the song of a jolly harvest-home."
  • "O baleful Envy! thou self-tormenting fiend! how dost thou predominate in all assemblies, from the grand gala of a court, to the meeting of simple peasants at their harvest-home!"