corn-cutter

Chuff, chuff, chuff, went the machine like a corn-cutter on a hot day.

Between the Acts 2004

It is a large, long, clumsy knife, something like a corn-cutter.

Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades Marian M. George

At this time, Hannah, Pinckney's wife, had become impatient of our persistent course; and my wife, who brought me her message urging us to surrender, seized a corn-cutter, and declared she would cut off the head of the first one who should attempt to give up.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

At this period a corn-cutter resided at Blois, who possessed the double talent of juggling and extracting corns with a skill worthy of the lightness of his hands.

The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910

Somebody had run a great knife like a scythe or a corn-cutter through her.

Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

They helped Hugh with a new invention, a hay-loading apparatus on which he was at work, and also made special tools for use in the corn-cutter factory and the new bicycle factory.

Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

Ed Hall, who had been a carpenter's apprentice earning but a few dollars a week with his master, Ben Peeler, was now foreman in the corn-cutter factory and received a salary of twenty-five dollars every Saturday night.

Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

In the corn-cutter plant something had happened that excited the men.

Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

After the tale was printed the advertising manager of the corn-cutter factory got Hugh to go with him one day to Tom Butterworth's farm.

Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

As darkness came on he went into the country, and at nine returned along the railroad tracks past the corn-cutter factory.

Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908