Harvestman

Word HARVESTMAN
Character 10
Hyphenation har vest man
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Definitions and meanings of "Harvestman"

What do we mean by harvestman?

A man who harvests. noun

A laborer in harvest. noun

A harvester, shepherd-spider, gray-bear, or daddy-long-legs; an arachnidan, such as those of the genus Phalangium, having a very small globose body with long slim legs. Also harvest-spider. noun

A man engaged in harvesting. noun

See Daddy longlegs, 1. noun

A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest. noun

An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones. noun

Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs noun

A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest.

An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Harvestman

The word "harvestman" in example sentences

The daddy long-leg spider (Pholcidae) is often confused with the "harvestman" (Opiliones) which can also be called a daddy long-leg. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first "daddy long-legs" is actually a harvestman, or Opilione. ❋ AYDIN (2008)

A number of other invertebrate species, including beetles, harvestman, spiders, millipedes, and freshwater mussels are specialists on habitats modified by old Redwood and other conifer forests and maintain very local distributions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Several of the only known localities for endemic harvestman, spiders, land snails, and other invertebrates have been heavily altered or lost through logging within the last decade, and the current status of these species is unknown. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It dropped into the mist: a large chrome harvestman spider … a dead one. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

Fact: There are several spiders that have been branded with this nickname—the harvestman, the crane fly and the pholcid house spider. ❋ Sean Covey (2006)

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Reph'a-im. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Having heard that Daddy Longlegs was a harvestman, she urged him to go to work for Farmer Green at harvest time. ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)

My own view is that you will not on that account make the farm worker a less efficient harvestman, but you will make him a happier father, you will be making him a more contented citizen, and may make him a more profitable worker than he has ever been. ❋ Unknown (1911)

And if they are still sung there, it is not, I think, for the sake of the kings, but for the sake of the poets who made them -- Red-haired Owen O'Sullivan, potato-digger, harvestman, hedge-schoolmaster, whose poems are still the joy of the Munster people; ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)

Ere the sun walks abroad, must the harvestman rise, ❋ Susanna Moodie (1844)

And here such multitudes shall fall that their bodies shall lie as thick as heaps of dung in the furrows of the field, and no more notice shall be taken of them than of the handfuls which the harvestman drops for the gleaners, for none shall gather them, but they shall remain in sight, monuments of divine vengeance, that the eye of the impenitent survivors may affect their heart. ❋ Unknown (1721)

One is the harvestman (Opiliones) and is often called a daddy long-legs but is not actually a spider, and does not even spin webs and has only two eyes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After returning to Dhaka I surfed several internet sites and checked the Asiatic Society's Fauna volume on Arachnida -- a class of invertebrates which include the largest number of animals after the Insects, with nearly 100,000 species of spiders, several thousand ticks, mites, harvestman, scorpions and about 100 species of scorpion look-alike Whip and False scorpions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A daddy-long-legs (harvestman), hanging out with the spiders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

of course you could argue that its a harvestman which appears to only have one body segment and also has 8 legs + 2 pedipalps oh god I'm arguing about spiders on a cake blog.. mmm im going to be quiet now ❋ Jen (2008)

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