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mowing machine

American  
[moh-ing] / ˈmoʊ ɪŋ /

noun

  1. a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.


Etymology

Origin of mowing machine

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25


Example Sentences

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He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up the street from the red brick bulk of Barracks "E"; marched the battalion of the Candidates' Class, its green-clad legs chiming as smoothly as the blades of 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

Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw a man pushing some kind of a mowing machine.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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