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

He and his father would lock themselves up in the shop and work for hours on a reaping machine.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

I had never seen or formed an idea of a reaping machine until I went to Hutchinson's.

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

Then there was Cyrus McCormick, who invented the reaping machine.

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

In 1831 he put a reaping machine in the field for trial, but it failed to work and its inventor was completely discouraged.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff