Definition of "hairst" [hairst]

• A dialectal (Scotch) form of harvest. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female laborers have to make the best of it in the barn."
• "As many as six or eight men, however, are put up in the garret referred to during "hairst" - time, and the female labourers have to make the best of it in the barn."
• "Many a ploughman delves his way to and from them still in all weathers, when the snow is on the ground; at the time of "hairst," and when the turnip "shaws" have just forced themselves through the earth, looking like straight rows of green needles."