different between harvester vs bedrip

English

Etymology

harvest +? -er

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest.
2. A machine that gathers the harvest.
3. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
4. A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
5. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores
6. (Ireland) A finnock (young sea trout).

Derived terms

• combine harvester

Translations

See also

• reaper

Anagrams

• Everharts, reharvest

English

Etymology 1

From be- (“on, about, all over”) +? drip.

Verb

bedrip (third-person singular simple present bedrips, present participle bedripping, simple past and past participle bedripped)

1. (intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
   • 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Richard Waddington (translator.), The morning-land:

     Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!

   • 1862, Poems from the German:

     But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "

Etymology 2

From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedr?p (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + r?p (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.

Alternative forms

• bederup (Ireland)
• bederepe, bidrepe (obsolete)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. (Britain dialectal) A band of harvesters.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd.

Anagrams

• prebid

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bederip, bedrep, bederp

Etymology

From Old English bedr?p, equivalent to bede (“request”) +? ripe (“reaping”)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. A day of reaping demanded from tenants by their feudal lord
2. (usually attributive) Something given as a substitute for reaping.
3. (rare) An individual obligated to perform this reaping.

Descendants

• English: bedrip
• Yola: bederup

References

• “bed-r??p(e, b??d-, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.