reaping machine

American  

noun

1. any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.

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Etymology

Origin of reaping machine

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

It is a story about a woman of the farmlands who, when her lover is killed in a reaping machine, marries an unattractive neighbor to father her child.

From Time Magazine Archive

If required to name the three subjects on which the most extraordinary versatility of invention has been expended, the answer would be without hesitation, the sewing machine, reaping machine and breech-loading firearm.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Indeed the most unqualified approval was given by the gentlemen present, to the applicability of the reaping machine to the purposes for which it is designed.

From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton

How many men has the self-binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

From a distant cornfield came the busy rattle of a reaping machine.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis