yielder

Noun

yielder (plural yielders)

1. Someone or something that yields a crop or other product.
   • Out of the whole ninety-five [cows] there were eight in particular […] who, though the teats of one or two were as hard as carrots, gave down to her with a readiness that made her work on them a mere touch of the fingers. Knowing, however, the dairyman’s wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the third (The...
   • Just as with the Irish potato, it is important to know how good a yielder you are planting.1903, Charles William Burkett et al., Agriculture for Beginners
2. Someone or something that yields, or gives way.
   • Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,
     Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
     For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
     Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
   • I am a modest man, sir, and hesitate to talk about myself even among friends; but since you all insist, there is nothing for me to do but yield as gracefully as I may--and as a yielder I glitter in the front rank.1909, Robert Fitzgerald, The Statesmen Snowbound