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reaper
(redirected from Reaping machine)

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reap·er  (rpr)
n.
One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops.

reaper [ˈriːpə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who reaps or a machine for reaping
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend)
the grim reaper death
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.reaper - someone who helps to gather the harvestreaper - someone who helps to gather the harvest
farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand - a hired hand on a farm
vintager - a person who harvests grapes for making wine
2.reaper - Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scytheReaper - Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
3.reaper - farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
binder, reaper binder - a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves
combine - harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
farm machine - a machine used in farming
header - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
Translations
reaper [ˈriːpəʳ] N
1. (= person) → segador(a) m/f
2. (= machine) → segadora f, agavilladora f
reaper [ˈriːpər] n
(= machine) → moissonneuse f
(= person) → moissonneur/euse m/f
reaper
n (= person)Schnitter(in) m(f); (= machine)Mähbinder m; the Reaper (fig: = death) → der Schnitter
reaper [ˈriːpəʳ] n (person) → mietitore/trice; (machine) → mietitrice f


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Out once again their gigantic hulk-like reaping machines appear, along with huge semi-trucks.
McCormick, a pioneer of agricultural mechanisation pioneered the reaping machine, cutting out corn cutting labour gangs.
So we have old reaping machines trundling through the long-lost fields that once bordered Queslett Road and also the arrival of what was one of the city's biggest council estates.
 
 
 
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