reaping machine

any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.

Origin of reaping machine

First recorded in 1805–15

rean, reanalysis, reanimate, reap, reaper, reaping machine, reappear, reapply, reappoint, reapportion, reapportionment

Bell, a Scotch minister, also contrived a reaping-machine that was tried in 1828.

Inventors |Philip Gengembre Hubert
The inventor of the reaping-machine died on the 13th of May, 1884.

Inventors |Philip Gengembre Hubert
The dead lanterns swung in the morning air, and from back on the hill came the staccato sounds of a reaping-machine.

K |Mary Roberts Rinehart
And the corn was ripe and ready, the hand-cut lane cleared for the reaping-machine around nearly all the fields.

The Retrospect |Ada Cambridge

The reaping-machine began to rattle as he came up, and work was ready for him.

The Open Air |Richard Jefferies