harvest lord

noun

The head reaper at the harvest.

Meanings

nounharvest lord (plural harvest lords)

plural harvest lords

  1. The head reaper at the harvest.

    The presence and authority of these harvest lords within the seasonal companies is not as remarkable as would have been their absence – for wherever one looks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries one finds examples of men and women who came together to work collectively […]

    2014, Stephen Banks, Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760-1914
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