reaping machine

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 Follett Lamberton Greeno

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

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

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

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

The whole crop was cut by your reaping machine in eight days, using one team, a boy to drive and a man to manage the machine.

From Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap by Follett Lamberton Greeno