单词 | harvest time |
释义 | harvest timen. a. The time of harvest; the season of autumn (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > autumn harvest902 harvest-tidec1175 harvest time1362 autumn?c1400 falling of the leaf?1504 fall1550 leaf fall1616 go-harvest1735 back-end1820 fall time1833 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest-time harvest902 harvest monthc1000 reap-timeOE harvest-tidec1175 harvest time1362 reaping timea1382 shaking time1658 picking time1799 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 107 He schulde ben huyred þer-aftur whom haruest tyme come. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xx. xi. 815 It befel vpon a daye in heruest tyme. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xxiii. 13 [They] came to Dauid in the haruest time . View more context for this quotation 1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 35 At last a fever seized On William, and in harvest time he died. b. figurative. The time for reaping reward or gathering in results. ΚΠ 1782 S. Crisp Let. Aug. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 153 This is the harvest-time of your life. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. I. xiv. 368 But Gage..whiled away his harvest-time of honour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1362 |
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