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farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
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Reaper \Reap"er\ (r[=e]p"[~e]r), n. 1. One who reaps.
The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. --Macaulay.
2. A reaping machine.
All are tangible and real. As the Science Museum says, reflecting on these inventions helps us appreciate why the world of today has become what it has. An example is Bell's mechanical reaper, designed in 1827 by Patrick Bell of Carmyllie, Scotland.
The aim would be to spur buying and to reassure Americans with incomes from $25,000 to $150,000 that politicians are acting to stanch the loss of jobs before the grim reaper of unemployment calls on their own home sweet home.