Reaper

Someone who harvests, grimly or happily.

“‘And who are those people in back of him? Good grief, there’s a whole army running behind him.’

‘They’re the poor who glean the leavings of the vintage, Mother. They’re not an army; don’t be afraid.’

“And truly, the swarm of ragamuffins which began to appear in his train was like an army. They immediately scattered all through the harvested vineyards—men, women and children, with sacks and baskets—and began to search. Each year at the reaping, the vintage and the olive harvest these flocks of hunger poured out of the whole of Galilee and collected the wheat, grapes and olives which the landowners left for the poor, as ordered by the Law of Israel.”

Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ (1960).

[Translated by Peter Bien.]