cutter bar
Americannoun
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Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
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a bar holding the cutting tool in a boring machine or lathe.
Etymology
Origin of cutter bar
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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All morning you could hear the rattle of the machine as it went round and round, while the tall grass fell down behind the cutter bar in long green swathes.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
But the seed crop is more commonly cut with the field mower, to the cutter bar of which a galvanized platform is bolted, the sides of which are about 6 inches high.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas
The knives are set at an angle to the axis of the cutter bar or cutter head.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
It consists of a frame carrying a revolving shaft, which is by some called the cutter head, and by others the cutter bar, and to which the cutters or knives are attached.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
C. Coppage, Terre Haute, Ind.—The object of my invention is to render more simple and effective the machinery for operating and adjusting the cutter bar and the reel of harvesters.
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