noun
harvester
noun
1
A person or machine that gathers a crop.
"The combine harvester cut and threshed the whole field in an afternoon."
2
A program that automatically collects data from somewhere, such as the web.
"The site uses a harvester to pull product prices from competitor pages."
How to Use Harvester
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishWhatever does the harvesting — a person, a farm machine, or a piece of software.
Common pairings
combine harvester
email harvester
crop harvester
Word Forms
harvesters plural
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Etymology
Simply harvest plus the agent suffix "-er" — someone or something that does the harvesting.