harvest month
The month during which the harvest is gathered in; originally (like Ger. herbstmonat, Icel. haustmánuðr) a name of September; but in Robert of Gloucester of August.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 43 September, hærfestmonoð. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 61 Þe nexte moneþ afturward, þat heruest moneþ ys, He let clepe aftur hym August y wys. 1826 in Hone's Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1155 Had my journey taken place during the present harvest month. |