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combine harvester

British  
/ ˈkɒmbaɪn /

noun

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

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Mr Maughan, a father of two, said the gang cut out GPS systems from vehicles on the farms, including from his combine harvester.

From BBC

"Some of them are going to be very small... others are going to be big, perhaps even as big as combine harvester. There will be an autonomous system that is co-ordinating this team of robots, telling them what they need to do in order to get different tasks done."

From BBC

All these things are pretty transferable to a combine harvester, especially the more modern ones.”

From The Guardian

They told the BBC that they were inspired by the British cat Oscar, who was the first to receive prosthetic legs following an accident involving a combine harvester.

From BBC

Then the second-half kicked off and we saw the same fossilized Manning we’ve become familiar with in recent years, the one who moves like a long-neglected combine harvester.

From The Guardian