harvestmann.
1. A labourer in the harvest-field; a reaper; esp. one who leaves home to obtain harvest work.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower
reapmanOE
reaperOE
mower1225
shearer1318
puller1332
winner1352
repstera1450
harvestman1552
scytheman1577
harvester1589
sickler1638
messor1656
cradler1766
grass mower1779
thraver1813
reapa1825
bagger1844
cradle-man1889
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Haruest man, messor.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xvii. 5 And it shall bee as when the haruest-man gathereth the corne. View more context for this quotation
1774 S. Johnson Diary Journey N. Wales 4 Sept. (1964) V. 453 I saw the Harvest men very decently dressed.
1894 Times 14 Aug. 15/1 It can hardly be said that the weather of last week was on the side of the harvestman.
2. A name given to certain insects which abound in the fields in harvest-time; esp. a long-legged spider of the family Phalangidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Opiliones > family Phalangidae or genus Phalangium > member of
shepherd1608
carter spider1665
shepherd spider1665
spider1665
shepherd's spider1688
father-long-legs1746
granddaddy1808
daddy-long-legs1818
harvestman1830
grandfather-long-legs1833
phalangian1835
phalangidan1835
harvest-spider1852
granddaddy-long-legs1858
phalangid1869
phalange1876
opilionid1900
1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 85 (note) Among the almost infinite variety of insects which haunt Grasses..is the Gryllus viridissimus..in Devonshire called the Harvest~man from the season of its appearance.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §765 The Phalangidæ, or Harvest-men, have two thread-like palpi, terminated by a small hook.
1872 C. V. Riley Rep. Noxious Insects 17 These animals are popularly called ‘Grand-Daddy-Long-Legs’ in this country, but are also known as ‘Harvest men’ and ‘Grandfather-Gray-Beards’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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