Harvesting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harvesting \Har"vest*ing\,
     a. & n., from {Harvest}, v. t.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Harvesting ant} (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers
        and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are
           {Aphenogaster structor} and {Aphenogaster barbara};
           that of Texas, called {agricultural ant}, is
           {Pogonomyrmex barbatus} or {Myrmica molifaciens}; that
           of Florida is {Pogonomyrmex crudelis}. See
           {Agricultural ant}, under {Agricultural}.
           [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harvest \Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harvested}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Harvesting}.]
     To reap or gather, as any crop.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  harvesting
       n : the gathering of a ripened crop [syn: {harvest}, {harvest
           home}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "harvesting":
     architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition,
     construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crop,
     cropping, cultivation, cutting, devising, elaboration, erection,
     extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming,
     formulation, framing, gathering, gleaning, growing, handicraft,
     handiwork, harvest, ingathering, machining, making, manufacture,
     manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, nutting, prefabrication,
     preparation, processing, producing, raising, reaping, refining,
     shaping, smelting, workmanship