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A barn-sized machine that cuts, threshes, and cleans grain in one ruthless pass.
means To merge two or more things into a single whole — or, as a noun in farming, the big harvesting machine that does several jobs at once.
from From Latin combinare, 'to unite, yoke together,' built from com- ('together') and bini ('two by two, in pairs'). So at its root the word literally means 'to pair up.' It entered English through Late Latin and French as a verb of joining. The farm machine earned the name in the late 19th century because it combined the separate tasks of reaping, threshing, and winnowing into one — a 'combine harvester,' soon clipped to just combine, with the stress shifting to the front of the word to mark it as a thing rather than an act.
- name origin
- Combines three jobs once done by separate machines
- sheer size
- Headers can stretch over 60 feet wide
- price tag
- New models cost more than most houses
- global appetite
- One machine harvests grain for thousands of loaves daily
- GPS driven
- Modern combines steer themselves with satellite precision
combine harvester — agricultural machine that harvests, threshes, and cleans grain crops in one operation, first patented by hiram moore in 1836
standard oil trust — rockefeller's monopoly formed in 1882, broken up by sherman antitrust act in 1911
agricultural combine — soviet collective farms (kolkhoz) organized to combine individual holdings, established during stalin's collectivization 1928-1933