Gavels
[gævəlz]
Examples
- In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1806, Gladstone of England built and patented a machine which not only attempted to cut the grain, but also to deliver it in gavels to be bound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The stalks should be cut close to the ground and thrown into bundles or gavels. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This seat which carried the raker enabled him while riding to rake the grain from the platform and deposit it in gavels on the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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