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
Then came rapid development of the reaping machine.
From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph
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
From a distant cornfield came the busy rattle of a reaping machine.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
He and his father would lock themselves up in the shop and work for hours on a reaping machine.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton
