Definition of "mowing-machine" [mowing-machine]

• A machine for mowing grass. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If you look at a mowing-machine, you will see it is nothing but a lot of shears."
• "If a woman can invent a mowing-machine, if a woman can invent a Jacquard loom, if a woman can invent a cotton-gin, if a woman can invent a trolley switch-as she did and made the trolleys possible; if a woman can invent, as Mr. Carnegie said, the great iron squeezers that laid the foundation of all the steel millions of the United States,"
• "Its enormous lips act like a mowing-machine, and form a path of short-cropped grass as it feeds."