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harvest time
The time of harvest; the season of autumn (obs.).
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 107 He schulde ben huyred þer-aftur whom haruest tyme come. 1470–85Malory Arthur xx. xi. 815 It befel vpon a daye in heruest tyme. 1611Bible 2 Sam. xxiii. 13 [They] came to Dauid in the haruest time. 1842Tennyson Dora 53 At last a fever seized On William, and in harvest time he died.
b. fig. The time for reaping reward or gathering in results.
1782F. Burney Let. to Crisp Aug., This is the harvest time of your life. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xiv. 214 But Gage..whiled away his harvest-time of honor. |