Definition of "harvester" in English

noun

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

2. A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

3. (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.

4. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.

5. A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.

6. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.

7. (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).