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  • A farm machine, typically horse-drawn or later tractor-powered, designed to cut and gather grain or other crops, which revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century by automating the process of harvesting.

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Tall, darkly handsome and exuding patrician confidence and breeding, Mr. Blair was a scion of a prominent and moneyed Chicago family that owed its fortune to the invention of the mechanical reaper.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2015

By the 1850s, McCormick’s mechanical reaper had enabled farmers to vastly increase their output.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

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  • crop-cutter
  • automated scythe

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  • manual reaping
  • hand harvesting

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