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reaping machine

noun

any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.

First recorded in 1805–15

Success was evident, and the English farmers gave three hearty cheers for the American reaping-machine.

Another invention of which the public have heard no little discussion lately is the reaping machine.

He and his father would lock themselves up in the shop and work for hours on a reaping machine.

So was born the famous Marsh harvester, which proved to be the half-way mark in the evolution of the grain-reaping machine.

How many men has the self-binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?

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