iron harvest

noun

The annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and trench supports from World War I collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields.

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Meanings

nouniron harvest (plural iron harvests)

plural iron harvests

  1. The annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and trench supports from World War I collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields.
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