reaping machine

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The reaping machine, the harvester and machines for thrashing, winnowing and cleaning wheat for the market, have become quite indispensable to every large grain grower.’”

From Scientific American

Farmers in thinly settled parts of the country lose a foot in a reaping machine or a hand in the hay-cutting machine when there is no one near to help them but their wives, with the result that the shock to their wives proves the occasion of a similar deformity in an as yet unborn child.

From Project Gutenberg

I did not see a mowing or a reaping machine in the Tyrol, either on this or the other side of the mountains.

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In the summer of 1857 Lincoln was employed by Mr. Manny, of Rockford, Ill., to defend him in an action brought by McCormick,* who was one of the inventors of the reaping machine, for infringement of patent.

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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.

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