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

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

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

The knife-fingers and general arrangements and operation of the cutting apparatus are found in the reaping machine of O. Hussey, patented 31st Dec.,

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