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52 relations: Agricultural machinery, Agricultural productivity, Baltimore, British English, British Isles, Central Europe, Cereal, Chicken, Combine harvester, Conditioner (farming), Crop, Cyrus McCormick, Cyrus McCormick Farm, Death (personification), Gleaning, Grain, Grain cradle, Harvest, Hay, Horse, International Harvester, John Henry Manny, Maize, Manual labour, Mechanised agriculture, Mower, Obed Hussey, Pig, Poaceae, Reaper (disambiguation), Reaper-binder, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Robert McCormick (Virginia), Scientific American, Scythe, Sheaf (agriculture), Sickle, Springfield, Ohio, Stook, Straw, Swather, Tarpaulin, Technological unemployment, Thatching, Threshing, Twine, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Virginia, Windrow, Winnowing, ..., Wire, Word sense. Expand index (2 more) »
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural machinery is machinery used in farming or other agriculture.
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Agricultural productivity
Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to agricultural inputs.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is the region comprising the central part of Europe.
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Cereal
A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.
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Combine harvester
The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops.
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Conditioner (farming)
A conditioner (or hay conditioner) is a farm implement that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
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Crop
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
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Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
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Cyrus McCormick Farm
The Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop is on the family farm of inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick known as Walnut Grove.
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Death (personification)
Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper.
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Gleaning
Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.
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Grain cradle
A grain cradle or cradle, is a modification to a standard scythe to keep the cut grain stems aligned.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields.
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Hay
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep.
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.
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International Harvester
The International Harvester Company (abbreviated first IHC and later IH) was a United States manufacturer of agricultural machinery, construction equipment, trucks, and household and commercial products.
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John Henry Manny
John Henry Manny (1825–1856) was the inventor of the Manny Reaper, one of various makes of reaper used to harvest grain in the 19th century.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Manual labour
Manual labour (in British English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and to that done by working animals.
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Mechanised agriculture
Mechanised agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanise the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity.
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Mower
A mower is a person or machine that cuts (mows) grass or other plants that grow on the ground.
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Obed Hussey
Obed Hussey (October 7, 1792 – August 4, 1860) was an American inventor, born in Hallowell, Maine to Quaker parents, of a farm machine called a reaper.
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Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.
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Poaceae
Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.
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Reaper (disambiguation)
A reaper is a farm tool or machine for harvesting grain.
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Reaper-binder
The reaper-binder, or binder, is a farm implement that improved upon the simple reaper.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Richmond Times-Dispatch (RTD or TD for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, United States.
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Robert McCormick (Virginia)
Robert McCormick Jr. (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor, who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented in 1834.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Scythe
A scytheOxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1933: Scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops.
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Sheaf (agriculture)
A sheaf is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after harvesting (or reaping), traditionally by cutting the stems with a scythe or sickle or, after its 1872 invention, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
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Sickle
A sickle, or bagging hook, is a hand-held agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, either freshly cut or dried as hay.
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Springfield, Ohio
Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County.
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Stook
A stook, also referred to as a shock or stack, is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and prior to collection for threshing.
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Straw
Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed.
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Swather
A swather, or windrower, is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow.
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Tarpaulin
A tarpaulin, or tarp, is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene.
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Technological unemployment
Technological unemployment is the loss of jobs caused by technological change.
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Thatching
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm fronds, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
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Threshing
Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the husks and straw to which it is attached.
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Twine
Twine is a light string or strong thread composed of two or more smaller strands or yarns twisted, and then twisted together.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Windrow
A windrow is a row of cut (mown) hay or small grain crop.
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Winnowing
Wind winnowing is an agricultural method developed by ancient cultures for separating grain from chaff.
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Wire
A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal.
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Word sense
In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word (some words have multiple meanings, some words have only one meaning).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaper
