mowing machine

[ moh-ing ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mowing machine¹

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Example Sentences

He had a contrivance that looked like a small mowing machine, and was busily cutting swaths of wool along her sides.

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Happening to remember that the mowing machine was standing in the barnyard, with the mowing-bar in the air, I examined it.

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All through schooltime the mowing-machine hummed its low harmony of perishable minutes and wasted sunlight.

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Then he hastened to another field where the mowing machine was steadily moving across the lot.

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Then a mowing-machine arrived, and was carefully put on board with a great deal of bustle and loud talking.

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