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

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

I had never seen or formed an idea of a reaping machine until I went to Hutchinson's.

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

The Earl of Zetland again referred to the reaping machine.

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