Dictionary entry

Harvest-home

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Har″vest–home″ (–hōm), n. 1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.

Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.

2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.

3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.