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

The boy whose business it was to drive the team of the reaping machine hadn’t come, and Davie was only too proud and happy to be just in his place.

From Eunice by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

But a reaping machine, though used by the husband in the business by which he supports his family, is not a legitimate item of family expense, nor can a plow be included therein.

From Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)

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 Greeno, Follett Lamberton

In 1831 he put a reaping machine in the field for trial, but it failed to work and its inventor was completely discouraged.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff