harvesting

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

harvesting
    n 1: the gathering of a ripened crop [syn: {harvest},
         {harvesting}, {harvest home}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Harvesting \Har"vest*ing\,
   a. & n., from {Harvest}, v. t.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Harvesting ant} (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers
      and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are
         {Aphenogaster structor} and {Aphenogaster barbara};
         that of Texas, called {agricultural ant}, is
         {Pogonomyrmex barbatus} or {Myrmica molifaciens}; that
         of Florida is {Pogonomyrmex crudelis}. See
         {Agricultural ant}, under {Agricultural}.
         [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Harvest \Har"vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Harvested}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Harvesting}.]
   To reap or gather, as any crop.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "harvesting":
      architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition,
      construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crop,
      cropping, cultivation, cutting, devising, elaboration, erection,
      extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming,
      formulation, framing, gathering, gleaning, growing, handicraft,
      handiwork, harvest, ingathering, machining, making, manufacture,
      manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, nutting, prefabrication,
      preparation, processing, producing, raising, reaping, refining,
      shaping, smelting, workmanship