Meanings
plural harvestries
- countableuncountableThe act of harvesting.
- countableuncountableThat which is harvested.
Thus in your field my seed of harvestry Thrives, for the fruit is like me that I set; God bids me tend it with good husbandry; This is the end for which we twain are met.
1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ballad written for a Bridegroom […] ”, in Poems and Ballads Second Series
Origin
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