harvest

harvest
   American
   to kill for personal gratification
   Fresh euphemisms are needed from time to time to describe or attempt to justify the activities of those who kill animals other than for self-protection or food:
    Trophy-hunters, or harvesters, as some prefer to be called, track and kill their prey... Mr O'Neill was glad that he had 'harvested' his bear without unleashing the Inuit hunter's dogs on his prey. {Daily Telegraph, 29 April 1998 — Mr O'Neill had paid for a licence to kill a single male polar bear; the intrepid hunter and two of his companions in error killed females)

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  • Harvest — Har vest (h[aum]r v[e^]st), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h[ae]rfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo s fruit. Cf. {Carpet}.] 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Harvest — (eng. Ernte) steht für: Harvest (Alabama), Ort in Alabama Harvest (Album), ein Musikalbum von Neil Young Harvest (Naglfar Album), ein Musikalbum von Naglfar Harvest Records, ein Plattenlabel Harvest (Film), ein Dokumentarfilm Siehe auch:… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Harvest — Harvest, AL U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama Population (2000): 3054 Housing Units (2000): 1146 Land area (2000): 12.423029 sq. miles (32.175497 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 12.423029… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Harvest, AL — U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama Population (2000): 3054 Housing Units (2000): 1146 Land area (2000): 12.423029 sq. miles (32.175497 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 12.423029 sq. miles (32 …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • harvest — [n] crops; taking in of crops autumn, by product, consequence, cropping, effect, fall, fruitage, fruition, garnering, gathering, harvesting, harvest time, ingathering, intake, output, produce, reaping, repercussion, result, return, season,… …   New thesaurus

  • harvest — ► NOUN 1) the process or period of gathering in crops. 2) the season s yield or crop. ► VERB ▪ gather as a harvest. DERIVATIVES harvestable adjective harvester noun. ORIGIN Old English, «autumn» …   English terms dictionary

  • harvest — [här′vist] n. [ME hervest < OE hærfest, akin to Ger herbst (OHG herbist) < IE * (s)kerp < base * (s)ker , to cut > SHEAR, SHORT, L caro, flesh, cernere & Gr krinein, to separate, karpos, fruit: basic sense “time of cutting”] 1. the… …   English World dictionary

  • Harvest — Har vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harvested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Harvesting}.] To reap or gather, as any crop. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • harvest — index gain, glean, output, product, profit (noun), profit (verb), reap, result Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • harvest — UK US /ˈhɑːvɪst/ verb [T] ► INTERNET, MARKETING to collect information about people, products, companies, etc. from the internet using a search engine (= a program that searches for particular words in documents on websites): »In computer jargon …   Financial and business terms

  • harvest — vb *reap, glean, gather, garner Analogous words: collect, assemble (see GATHER): *accumulate, amass, hoard …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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