mowing-machine

If a woman can invent a mowing-machine, if a woman can invent a Jacquard loom, if a woman can invent a cotton-gin, if a woman can invent a trolley switch-as she did and made the trolleys possible; if a woman can invent, as Mr. Carnegie said, the great iron squeezers that laid the foundation of all the steel millions of the United States,

Acres of Diamonds 2008

If you look at a mowing-machine, you will see it is nothing but a lot of shears.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

Its enormous lips act like a mowing-machine, and form a path of short-cropped grass as it feeds.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The mowing-machine was useful now; and a good thing, too, to have three active women that could take a turn at the haymaking.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

But in the little time the haymaking lasted there came a stranger or so, folk wanting to see the mowing-machine.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

I am often in disgrace for idleness, for laughing; but even as Miss Matthews grumbles at my feather-headed carelessness, I catch sight of something moving — a speck of sun perhaps on a picture, or the donkey drawing the mowing-machine across the lawn; or a sail that passes between the laurel leaves, so that I am never cast down.

The Waves 2003

The last rain had beaten down a lot of the first-year grass, and it could not pick up again, so Nils had put on the mowing-machine.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

Wind and rain, but he is glad at heart; a mowing-machine and a harrow down at the quay; he had seen them.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

As for a mowing-machine and a harrow, he could buy them in any of the towns, and send up from there.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Look! red and blue, wonderful to see, with a heap of teeth and a heap of knives, with joints and arms and screws and wheels — a mowing-machine.

The Growth of the Soil 2003