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harvest home, harvest-home
1. The fact, occasion, or time of bringing home the last of the harvest; the close of the harvesting.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 35 His Chin new reapt, Shew'd like a stubble Land at Haruest-home. 1693Dryden Persius iv. 64 At harvest-home, and on the shearing-day. 1757R. Bentley tr. Hentzner's Trav. Eng. 79 (Brand) We happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home; their last load of corn they crown with flowers. a1826L. Hunt Months in Hone's Every-day Bk. I. 1059 Harvest-home is still the greatest rural holiday in England. 1844–61H. Alford Hymn, Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-Home.
fig.1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 287, I will vse her as the key of the Cuckoldly-rogues Coffer, and ther's my haruest-home. 1606Sir G. Goosecappe v. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 85, I have cride haruest home of thus much judgment In my greene sowing time. 1818Shelley Lines Euganean Hills 230 Sheaves of whom are ripe to come To destruction's harvest home.
b. A shout or song of rejoicing on that occasion.
1648Herrick Hesper., Hock-cart 6 Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the pipe, sing harvest home. 1691Dryden K. Arthur v. i, Come, my boys, come; And merrily roar our harvest home. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles i. Introd., The last blithe shout hath died upon our ear, And harvest-home hath hush'd the clanging wain.
2. The festival or merry-making to celebrate the successful homing of the corn, called in Scotland ‘the kirn’. (Now rarely held.)
1573[see 3]. 1648Herrick Hesper., Country Life, Thy wakes..Thy sheering-feast, which never faile; Thy harvest⁓home; thy wassaile bowle. 1798Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Summer 290 The long-accustomed feast of Harvest-home. 1864Chambers'Bk. of Days ii. 376/2 In England, the festival of ingathering passes generally under the endeared name of harvest-home. 1891Daily News 21 Sept. 3/2, I have nowhere found any survival of the old-fashioned ‘harvest home’. ‘No; it is quite gone. The Union killed that.’
3. Comb., as harvest-home call, harvest home song; harvest-home goose, one killed and eaten at the harvest-home feast; also called harvest-goose.
1537Tusser Husb. xc. (1878) 181 For all this good feasting, yet art thou not loose, Till ploughman thou giuest his haruest home goose. 1813–43Brand's Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 19 The Suffolk peasantry use..the following Harvest-home song: Here's a health to the barley-mow! Ibid. 29 This ‘Harvest-home’ Call is the one generally made use of in the county of Devon. |