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

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 Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

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

The first reaping machine using the sickle and guard device was known as the "dropper."

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

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