What is "harvestman"

Daddy longlegs \Dad"dy long"legs`\

1. (Zo["o]l.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.

Carter \Cart"er\, n.

1. A charioteer. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster.

3. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman.

   2. A British fish; the whiff.

n. 1 A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest. 2 An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones.

n. spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio]