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 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

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)

How many men has the self-binding reaping machine thrown for a time out of work?

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

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