Patriarch discovered during harvest grabbing female (8,6)

'female' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'patriarch discovered during harvest grabbing' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'patriarch' could be 'father' (I've seen this before) and 'father' is present in the answer.
'discovered' could be 'found' ('find' can be a synonym of 'discover') and 'found' is found in the answer.
'during' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'g' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?