swather

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swathe 1

 (swŏth, swôth, swāth)
tr.v. swathed, swath·ing, swathes
1.
a. To wrap, as in layers of cloth: swathed herself in towels.
b. To wrap or bind in bandages.
2. To enfold or envelop: Clouds swathed the mountain.
n.
A wrapping, binding, or bandage.

[Middle English swathen, from Old English swathian.]

swath′er n.

swathe 2

 (swŏth, swôth, swāth)
n.
Variant of swath.
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swather

(ˈswɔːθə)
n
1. (Tools) US a farming implement that cuts and binds some grain crops into windrows
2. (Agriculture) US a farming implement that cuts and binds some grain crops into windrows
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Products: Art's-Way portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment; land management and tillage equipment; sugar beet equipment; forage and hay equipment; reels for combines and swathers; manure spreaders; bale processors
Early combines, headers and swathers used canvas to transport the grain.
13), were quickly rendered obsolete in Canada by the introduction of ox- or horse-drawn swathers and balers.
The building is recorded in the 1891 census as the Swatters Carr Hotel Public House - Swatters (or Swathers) Carr after the isolated farmhouse, first recorded on a map dated 1618.
All mowers, swathers and tedders from CLAAS are developed and manufactured in Bad Saulgau, Germany.
With mobile viners, the crop is cut and swathed into windrows, threshed out by the mobile viners following swathers. Peas must be delivered to the processing plant soon after harvest, especially when the weather is hot, to avoid off-flavors.
And, the GC sub-compact tractors were redesigned for 2005 along with Massey Ferguson's 9000 combines and new hay equipment line of self-propelled swathers.
That means 90 per cent of the swathers they designed and built were for other well-known farm equipment retailers like Massey and New Holland.
Windrowers (sometimes called swathers) are used to cut small grains like wheat, oats and barley and are a good tool for cutting hay to feed to calves.
Rectangular balers, forage harvesters, grinder mixers, manure spreaders, mower conditioners, windrowers and swathers, field cultivators, chisel plows and disk harrows show negative sales for 2000 ranging from 0.8 percent to 6.3 percent.
Swathers replaced binders and the stooking operation was no more.