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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Harvesting \Har"vest*ing\,
   a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.
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   Harvesting ant (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers
      and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.
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   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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

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