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the machine that turned weeks of bent-back labor into an afternoon's air-conditioned cruise
means A person or machine that gathers ripe crops from the field.
from From 'harvest,' which goes back to Old English 'hærfest' — a word that once meant the season itself, autumn, the time of gathering. It's related to Dutch 'herfst' and German 'Herbst' (still their word for autumn), and likely cousins with Latin 'carpere,' to pluck. The '-er' is the plain old agent ending: one who harvests. So the machine inherited a name first worn by the season, then by the human who worked it.
- combine origin
- Named for combining reaping, threshing, and winnowing into one
- ant species
- Harvester ants store seeds in underground granaries
- GPS steering
- Modern combines drive themselves within an inch
- grim reaper
- Death's scythe is literally a harvesting tool
- horsepower
- Largest combines pack over 600 horsepower
claas lexion 770 — german combine harvester used globally, cuts and threshes grain in one pass
john deere s790 — american combine harvester, flagship model for large-scale grain farming
case ih axial-flow 7140 — romanian-designed rotary combine harvester, popular in eastern europe