To reap or gather, as corn and other crops, for the use of man and beast: often used figuratively.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The season of gathering the ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A crop or crops gathered or ready to be gathered; specifically, ripe grain reaped, and stored in stacks or barns; hence, a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored up: as, a harvest of nuts, or of ice.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Hence The product of any labor, or the result of any course of action; gain; result; effect; consequence.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The act or process of harvesting.