straw-cutter

Ranged along the walls of the room are some twenty rough wooden frames, looking like a compromise between a straw-cutter and a sewing-machine, each furnished with two strong rollers operated by a treadle and acting precisely like those of a clothes-wringer.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

I am at a loss to explain how my faith should have been confirmed afterwards by coming upon a guillotine -- an awful instrument in the likeness of a straw-cutter, with a decapitated wooden figure under its blade -- which the custodian confessed to be a modern improvement placed there by Signor P----.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

"Foolin 'along o' that new straw-cutter terday will be my ruin, I'm afeard," Evander muttered ruefully.

In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

"I pray ter mercy," he exclaimed fervently, "the boy hain 't been a-sp'ilin 'o' that thar new straw-cutter!"

In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

I am at a loss to explain how my faith should have been confirmed afterwards by coming upon a guillotine -- an awful instrument in the likeness of a straw-cutter, with a decapitated wooden figure under its blade -- which the custodian confessed to be a modern improvement placed there by Signor P----.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

After the second moulting the leaves, where large crops are fed, may be cut by running them twice through a common rotary hay or straw-cutter, of Hovey's, or one of a similar make.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863