A combine harvester is a machine that cuts and threshes grain in one pass. Drive a combine harvester.
It replaced about fifty people doing three separate jobs, which changed the whole countryside. A combine harvester costs as much as a house and is used for about three weeks a year.
1nouncombine harvesterA machine that cuts and threshes grain in one pass.
“The combine harvester took the whole field in an afternoon.”
combine harvester is a machine.
Named because it combines reaping, threshing and winnowing in a single machine.
So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing.
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