reaping machine

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of reaping machine

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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reaping machine

It is a story about a woman of the farmlands who, when her lover is killed in a reaping machine, marries an unattractive neighbor to father her child.

From Time Magazine Archive

The up-train was late—they had been too long loading up the fish at Dungeness, or there was a reaping machine being brought from Lydd.

From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila

The Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.

From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton

Dr. N. M. Hitt testified to a reaping machine being made by C. H. McCormick in 1831—it had a straight sickle blade.

From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton

If required to name the three subjects on which the most extraordinary versatility of invention has been expended, the answer would be without hesitation, the sewing machine, reaping machine and breech-loading firearm.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry