harvester
IPA: hˈɑrvʌstɝ
noun
- (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
- (Ireland) finnock (a young sea trout)
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Examples of "harvester" in Sentences
- The international harvester is not pleased. blooch
- And these ants are called harvester ants because they eat seeds.
- But apparently he took the inclusion of big "harvester" robots in the upcoming
- Unless some unused domain name harvester finds this mention of it and gets to it first.
- The harvester is a type of heavy vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging operations for felling, delimbing and bucking trees.
- At Intel, Dr. Smith is exploring the use of electromagnetic radiation and creating an electronic "harvester" of ambient radio waves.
- Today's Times described an everyday scene in Iraq - two cars pulled up, the men took a belt driven machine gun from the boot known as a 'harvester' in those parts and mowed down a large group of young boys who were playing football.
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