Meanings
plural harvest lords
- 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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