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noun

Harvest-home n.

The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. "Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home."

The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.

A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

The opportunity of gathering treasure.

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Etymology of 'Harvest-home'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Harvest-home" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the present writer differs with The Seminarian, on a point of historical precedent, but he ventures to suggest that to find the prototype of Harvest-home we must go back far beyond New England, and for that matter far beyond Old England, nay, beyond the Christian era itself, even to the day when it was said, "Thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles, ...

— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington