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combine harvester

/ ˈkɒmbaɪn /

noun

  1. a machine that simultaneously cuts, threshes, and cleans a standing crop of grain

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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On a farm near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, Robin Aird is preparing to have his combine harvester streamed live across the country as he cuts his corn.

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Mr Aird's combine harvester will, weather willing, be harvesting all day, live on the website.

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The festival organiser from Brecon said the sky "turned brown" with the wasps after a local farmer's combine harvester disturbed a nest in a field.

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The start-up developed and tested three big mining machines, each the size of a combine harvester and weighing about six metric tons, which quickly came to symbolize the damage industry could impose on the ocean floor.

Climbing into the cockpit of her combine harvester, 21-year-old Eleanor Gilbert is relieved at the rare window of dry weather in her patch of rain-soaked Berkshire.

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