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 whole crop was cut by your reaping machine in eight days, using one team, a boy to drive and a man to manage the machine.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
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
The boy whose business it was to drive the team of the reaping machine hadn’t come, and Davie was only too proud and happy to be just in his place.
From Eunice by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
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
