Harvest vs Hale - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between harvest and hale

is that harvest is the third season of the year; autumn; fall while hale is , black pine (pinus nigra ) or hale can be awn, beard of grain.

As a verb harvest

is to bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

harvest

English

(wikipedia harvest)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.

* 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

To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.

(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

* Fuller

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.

* Wordsworth

the harvest of a quiet eye

(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 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) crop

Verb

(en verb)

To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

To be occupied bringing in a harvest

''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation

To win, achieve a gain.

''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 time

hale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Health, welfare.

* Spenser

All heedless of his dearest hale .

Etymology 2

Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

* Jonathan Swift

Last year we thought him strong and hale .

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

Antonyms

* unhale

Usage notes

* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".

Etymology 3

From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).

Verb

(hal)

To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

* , II.6:

For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.

* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :

The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:

They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

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