self-binder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-binder
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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It was the child of the reaper and the parent of the self-binder.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton
If one has but 15 acres of grain to harvest, it may be better to hire a self-binder at $1 an acre.
From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth
Even as a young wife she had sometimes driven the mower or the self-binder to "help-out," and she had found pleasure and health in such hours of out-door life.
From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)
A new seeder brought in some money, and with rubber boots, snowshoes, baseballs, carpenters' tools, spectacles, lumber, and an agency for a self-binder as side issues, I see myself getting on in the world.
From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace
In one instance the author treated a case wherein the fetlock joint was perforated by the sickle-guard of a self-binder.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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