reaper

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The solitary reaper alone in the great field goes round and round, the red fans striking beside him, alone with the sunlight, and the blue sky, and the distant hills; and he and his reaper are as much of the corn-field as the long-forgotten sickle or the reaping-hook The sharp rattle of the mowing-machine disturbs the corncrake in the meadow.

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  1. noun One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops.

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  1. from Middle English repare, ripere, from Anglo-Saxon rīpere, a reaper, from rīpan, reap: see reap, v.
 

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/ˈripər/
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