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

For the great modern invention of the reaping machine, civilization is indebted to Cyrus Hall McCormick, an American.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

Then there was Cyrus McCormick, who invented the reaping machine.

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

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

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