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combine harvester

British

/ ˈkɒmbaɪn /

noun

a machine that simultaneously cuts, threshes, and cleans a standing crop of grain

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Filling up his seven tractors, two semitrailer trucks and a combine harvester for the year cost about $11,500 in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Sometimes the wheat's too dry, so the grain is too small and risks being thrown out with the straw" by the combine harvester, said Franck Laborde, FNSEA's head of climate risk.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Mr Aird's combine harvester will, weather willing, be harvesting all day, live on the website.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

By age 15, Gorbachev was helping his father drive a combine harvester after school and during the region’s blistering, dusty summers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

A combine harvester rolled down a field like a dinosaur, corn disappearing into its great, scarlet maw.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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