noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Broader terms: person
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Meaning 2
A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 3
A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, forestry
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Meaning 4
A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 6
Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 7
A finnock (a young sea trout).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
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noun
Meaning 8
farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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