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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a farm machine which cuts and threshes grain in one operation.
Quotations
1940
Not for him the reapers and harvesters and combines of the West, nor the hope of sudden riches.
1953
The first combine on the North American prairies for cutting and threshing grain in one operation was tried out on the Swift Current station in 1922.
1964
Bill and Fred Streich of Clandeboye, Manitoba and Frank McBain . . . built a combine that resembles traditional machines only from the pick-up to the rear of the cylinder assembly.