grain harvester

Field cutting machine

A grain harvester is a machine that cuts and collects cereal crops like wheat, barley, or oats.

The term covers both older equipment that only cuts the grain and modern combine harvesters that cut, thresh, and clean in one operation: The grain harvester moved methodically across the field.

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farm equipment · golden · amber waves · golden hour · fields · chaff · stalks · sickle · blades · dusty · autumn · swath · header · auger · bushels · crop yield · stubble · rumbling

Opposites
agricultural function

grain harvesterseed drill

Machine for sowing crops

planter · tiller · plow · cultivator · transplanter

crop lifecycle stage

grain harvesterseed planter

Tool that buries crops

sower

crop type specialization

grain harvesterfruit picker

One who gathers crops

cotton picker

Family

grain, grains, grained, grainy, graininess, granule, granular, granularity, granulate

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G