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

The old man came through the underbrush like a reaping machine, and of course the police took after them.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert

It is impossible to use a plow, a spade, or a reaping machine without injuring it and, in the end, wearing it out.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

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 Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.

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