Harvest vs Forage - What's the difference?
harvest | forage |
The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.
* 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
*:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest' of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the ' harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
* Fuller
* Wordsworth
(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=20 To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
To be occupied bringing in a harvest
To win, achieve a gain.
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
* 1819 , :
An act or instance of foraging.
* Shakespeare
* Marshall
* 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3,
(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
* 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
* 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
To rummage.
* 1898 , , The Wrecker :
As nouns the difference between harvest and forage
is that harvest is the third season of the year; autumn; fall while forage is fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.As verbs the difference between harvest and forage
is that harvest is to bring in a harvest; reap; glean while forage is to search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.harvest
English
(wikipedia harvest)Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
- The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
- the harvest of a quiet eye
citation, passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}
Synonyms
* (season of the year) autumn, fall * (horti- or agricultural yield) cropVerb
(en verb)- ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
- ''The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21
Derived terms
* harvestable * harvestability * harvester * harvest bug * harvest fish * harvest fly * harvest home * harvest louse * harvestman * harvest mite * harvest moon * harvest mouse * harvest queen * harvest spider * harvest timeforage
English
Noun
(en noun)- “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage , which he spread before the knight's charger.
- (Dryden)
- He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
- Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
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- ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
Verb
(forag)- The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
- And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
- Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.