reaper

It cut wheat that could not be cut with McCormick's reaper or a cradle.

At this time a friend said to him, "Cyrus, why don't you go West with your Reaper, where the land is level and labor is scarce?"

Cyrus McCormick gave up everything he owned to the creditors—everything except his reaper, which nobody wanted.

But the exhibition of the American reaper in London did not result in its immediate adoption.

The advent of the reaper no doubt changed farming methods in this country.