binder

noun, esp. hist. a machine for binding grain into sheaves (COD)

“The binding of grain was cut with a team of three horses on a binder.”

“I never did that, but I drove the binder farming and all that sort of stuff.”

“I remember stooking grain, you know. When the binder binds the grain, it puts in little sheaves, and then you take the sheaves and you stand them up like this.”

“She was a real good horse. And the reason why I was told the guy sold her, she was too slow for the binder. And you know binder’s been gone for years.”

“In the fall, like when you had grain and that, you had like what they call a binder, and you had to go around and cut the field. And your grain and that would all come out in stooks like, eh.”

“There was a lot of work even before the thrashing machines. You had the binder out there. Cut the grain with a binder, and the sheaves were all kicked out on the ground, and you had to go and stook the sheaves, stand them up so they’d dry.”

“They were cut with teams of horses and binders, as they were called. And stook the wheat or oats, whatever they had. And then bring it in and harvest it in the thrashing machines. That was way before the big combines were invented, you see.”