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Harvest-home   Listen
noun
Harvest-home  n.  
1.
The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. "Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home."
2.
The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.
3.
A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
4.
The opportunity of gathering treasure.





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"Harvest-home" Quotes from Famous Books



... large place as an element of the food-supply. It has become curiously associated with the Puritan festival of Thanksgiving, an institution which has spread throughout the United States and which has in a way taken the place of the harvest-home festivities of the Old World and bygone ages. It is probable that the relation of this bird to our national festivities has done much to keep it in use in this country. It is a well-recognized fact that ...
— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
... probable that this was a harvest-home song, usually sung by reapers in the country: the chorus or burden, "Hooky, hooky," &c. is still heard in some parts of the kingdom, with ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... was done, autumn was upon the land. Harvest-home had gone, and the "fall" ploughing was forward. The smell of the burning stubble, of decaying plant and fibre, was mingling with the odours of the orchards and the balsams of the forest. The leafy hill-sides, far and near, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... wheat crop of South Australia; the first harvest-home of the bunch of people, who had there been shaken on to the sea-beach. When the wheat had ripened, everybody—including, I am glad to say, the Governor—turned to the harvesting of it. Riots had threatened ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne


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