reaping machine
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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 first reaping machine using the sickle and guard device was known as the "dropper."
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy
These tough stems blunt the sickles of the reapers and the knives of the reaping machine.
From Wildflowers of the Farm by Arthur Owens Cooke
How many men has the self-binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
I did not see a mowing or a reaping machine in the Tyrol, either on this or the other side of the mountains.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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