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self-binder
[ self-bahyn-der ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-binder1
Example Sentences
He had brought a new self-binder from Gregory which now stood in the yard ready for action, its various colors green, red, blue and white, resplendent in the sunlight.
Self-binder, first automatic grain-binding device for the reaper—Jacob Behel, United States, 1864.
An improved type of the ordinary reaper of McCormick is the self-binder, now in common use, a machine which not only reaps the stalks of grain but binds them together in sheaves.
In more general use is the reaper or self-binder.
The worst features of the "header" are that the wheat has to be much riper than for the reaper or self-binder, and consequently more is strewed about the field and lost; the machine cuts the wheat higher up also, and consequently leaves more weeds to ripen and leave their seed.
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