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Harvest Festival Word Search
11 words · 12×12 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
The CORNUCOPIA on every autumn table started as a goat horn in Greek myth, broken off and filled with fruit as an apology. Harvest festivals themselves are older than the holidays built on top of them, which is why the words in this word puzzle are farm words first: the SHEAF and the BUSHEL, the GRANARY and the WAGON, the BONFIRE lit when the work was finally done.
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean to THRESH grain?
Beating the cut stalks so the seed falls away from the straw. It was the slowest job of the year before machines, and the reason harvest needed a whole village.
How much is a BUSHEL?
About 35 litres by volume, though the weight changes with the crop. A bushel of BARLEY and a bushel of apples fill the same basket but do not weigh the same.
