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

Through it was introduced the first reaping machine into Ireland.

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Russell, Ruth

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

If required to name the three subjects on which the most extraordinary versatility of invention has been expended, the answer would be without hesitation, the sewing machine, reaping machine and breech-loading firearm.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

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)