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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hand-tool for facilitating the binding of sheaves of grain with twine. One form consists of a large wooden needle with a hook at the point, which serves to tighten the cord round the sheaf and form it into a knot. Another form consists of a wooden block, which is attached to the cord and used to make a slip-knot, the block being left on the sheaf.
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“Yet this device also had its disqualifications, the chief one being that it converted the human sheaf-binder into a sweat-shop worker.”
The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
“These subjects could be pursued under cover, but there was besides the field work, which had a more practical sound; model farms to be visited; steam-engines to be seen at work; lectures to be listened to on the spot; deep-drainage operations, a new drill, or a new sheaf-binder to be looked at.”
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