mowing machine

[ moh-ing ]

/ ˈmoʊ ɪŋ /

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

Words nearby mowing machine

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Also called mower.

All through schooltime the mowing-machine hummed its low harmony of perishable minutes and wasted sunlight.
Sinister Street, vol. 1|Compton Mackenzie
A mowing-machine wheel is keyed to the outer end of the tumbling rod.
Farm Mechanics|Herbert A. Shearer
Its enormous lips act like a mowing-machine, and form a path of short-cropped grass as it feeds.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries|David Livingstone
My farmer describes how they attended him one foggy day, as he was mowing in the meadow with a mowing-machine.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7|Various

All this time the mowing-machine kept up a click-clack-click-clack!
The Tale of Cuffy Bear|Arthur Scott Bailey