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

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reaping machine

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

Mr. J. T. Wharton, of Skelton Castle, said he had never witnessed so much enthusiasm in an agricultural district as was displayed in connection with the reaping machine.

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

By that time the three had been to the barber's and their heads looked like a wheat field, a field of golden grain after the reaping machine had been hauled across.

From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton

The up-train was late—they had been too long loading up the fish at Dungeness, or there was a reaping machine being brought from Lydd.

From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila

And now the platform is empty, and the only sound of life is the whirr of the reaping machine and the voices from the harvest field.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)