self-binder

[ self-bahyn-der ]

noun

, Agriculture.

1. binder ( def 5b ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-binder¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Self-binder, first automatic grain-binding device for the reaper—Jacob Behel, United States, 1864.

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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.

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In more general use is the reaper or self-binder.

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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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