Definition of HARVESTER

harvester

Plural: harvesters

Noun

  • someone who helps to gather the harvest
  • farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
  • A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
  • A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
  • A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
  • A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
  • A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
  • Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
  • A finnock (a young sea trout).

Origin / Etymology

From harvest + -er.

Synonyms

reaper

Scrabble Score: 15

harvester is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
harvester is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
harvester is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

harvester is a valid Words With Friends word