mowing machine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mowing machine
An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
Example Sentences
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The sun shone, grass sprouted and along came John Haggerty, school janitor, steering a mowing machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poppet Green was "painting away like a mowing machine . . . bodiless heads, green horses and violet grass, seaweed, shells and funguses."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the grass banks above the lawns the gardener started his mowing machine.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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