reaping machine
Example Sentences
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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 up-train was late—they had been too long loading up the fish at Dungeness, or there was a reaping machine being brought from Lydd.
From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila
And now the platform is empty, and the only sound of life is the whirr of the reaping machine and the voices from the harvest field.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
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
Dr. N. M. Hitt testified to a reaping machine being made by C. H. McCormick in 1831—it had a straight sickle blade.
From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Greeno, Follett Lamberton
