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combine 
n. a farm machine which cuts and threshes grain in one operation.
- 1940 Not for him the reapers and harvesters and combines of the West, nor the hope of sudden riches.
- 1953 The first combine on the North American prairies for cutting and threshing grain in one operation was tried out on the Swift Current station in 1922.
- 1964 Bill and Fred Streich of Clandeboye, Manitoba and Frank McBain . . . built a combine that resembles traditional machines only from the pick-up to the rear of the cylinder assembly.
- 1940 Not for him the reapers and harvesters and combines of the West, nor the hope of sudden riches.