combine harvester
A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grainA farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.
» "It's war," said the Grim Reaper and put his scythe aside to get onto the combine harvester.
„Es ist Krieg“, sagte der Tod, stellte seine Sense in die Ecke und stieg auf den Mähdrescher. — Plusquamperfekt
Plusquamperfekt · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.
Mähdrescher, Combine, Kombine
комба́йнkombájn
комба́йнkombájn
Examples
1 sentences"It's war," said the Grim Reaper and put his scythe aside to get onto the combine harvester.
de„Es ist Krieg“, sagte der Tod, stellte seine Sense in die Ecke und stieg auf den Mähdrescher. — Plusquamperfekt
Translations
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Origin
So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into oSo called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing.
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Forms
plural: combine harvesters| Singular | combine harvester |
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