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Harvester   Listen
noun
Harvester  n.  
1.
One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.
2.
(Zool.) A harvesting ant.





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"Harvester" Quotes from Famous Books



... peaceful of Christians, and he will immediately be beaten to death with sticks of chocolate. Place him among the angels of the New Jerusalem, and he will be stoned to death with precious stones. Circumstances may be beautiful and wonderful, the average may be heart-upholding, the harvester may be golden-bearded, the doctor may be secret-guessing, the cataract may be iris-leapt, the Anglo-Saxon infant may be brave-browed, but against and above all these prodigies the grand simple tendency of Dr. Warner to get murdered will still pursue its way until ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... of Kansas, was granted about a half dozen patents for various inventions in harvesting machines. One of his patents, that one numbered 789,010, and dated May 2, 1905, for a self-binding harvester, is conspicuous in the records of the Patent Office for the complicated and intricate character of the machine, for the extensive drawings required to illustrate it and the lengthy specifications required to explain it—there being thirty-seven large sheets of mechanical drawings ...
— The Colored Inventor - A Record of Fifty Years • Henry E. Baker


Words linked to "Harvester" :   fieldhand, farm machine, field hand, binder, harvest, reaper, reaper binder, header


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