Thesaurus results for HARVESTER

harvester

noun

Definition of harvester

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of harvester Corn and soybean growers reported that a single large combine harvester consumes roughly 200 gallons of diesel per day. — CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 Aggressively extracting oil from its iwashi resources, Imperial Japan became the world’s largest harvester of the fish. — Pei-Hsu Lin, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026 The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 May 2026 The harvester must have harvested oysters during the 2025-26 season, with proof in harvest reports. — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Giant African harvester ants are popular in China, Vietnam, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Researchers say the process turns the material into a kind of solid-state water harvester that works using only sunlight, without the need for external power sources or complex machinery. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026 The second prize of 10,000 euros went to Niklas Henning from the Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, for his peat harvester. — Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 11 May 2026 Eating harvester ants began as a feeding specialization, not a defense. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026

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Noun

North of the Thai capital Bangkok, rice farmers like 55-year-old Boonmark Marksuuk are already facing tough choices.

— EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Keep the diesel at home and prices will fall, sparing farmers, truckers, and inflationary pressures on all Americans.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of farmer

Noun

In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
At the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, American revolvers and reapers with swappable parts stunned international observers.

— Guru Madhavan, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2026

Definition of reaper

Noun

In 2019, González was introduced to Rocha, who had a reputation as a cultivator of Black and brown political talent.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cultivator

Noun

More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

— Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025

Definition of plowman

Noun

The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
With the fall harvest already started, diesel is powering tractors, planters, and harvesters.

— Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

On May 30, 1893, the 22-year-old was home alone at her family’s dairy farm in Fall River while her father, younger brother and a farmhand were in town selling milk, per The Herald News.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Monster depicts a Portuguese former farmhand being unjustly arrested for the murder.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of farmhand

Noun

Antonio Lo Fiego, an agronomist and technical director at Arcoiris Sementi Bio, led the first workshop, on selecting, gathering, and preserving vegetable seeds, run on a gift-economy model with no fee to join.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Gini, an agronomist who has overseen the planting of some two hundred thousand trees in Parco Nord in the past quarter century, has the tan skin, strong hands, and hearty disposition that are requisite for the job.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of agronomist

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