Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In agriculture, a horsepower machine for cutting off old corn-stalks in the field preparatory to plowing.
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Examples
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The horses ran away and broke stalk-cutter all to hell.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The trailing varieties form a tangled mass that cannot be handled by an ordinary breaking-plow, but a stalk-cutter, run in the direction the plow will follow, makes plowing possible.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900
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