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cleaning shoe

cleaning shoe noun: the part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.

cleaning shoe: the part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows...
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Noun

cleaning shoe (plural cleaning shoes)

  1. The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.
    • The cleaning shoe expels lightweight material known as chaff as well as material with intermediate aerodynamic properties, such as straw, from the back of the combine.2003, William W. Casady, “Grain Harvesting Systems”, in Dennis R. Heldman, editor, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, →ISBN, page 449
  2. (machinery) A brake shoe used to clean a wheel.
    • After every test (except those at 30 mph) the wheel was cleaned by making two stops with cleaning shoes from a speed of 40 miles per hour.1913, Pennsylvania Railroad Test Dept., Brake Tests, page 245

Forms of cleaning shoe

pluralcleaning shoes

Questions about cleaning shoe

What does cleaning shoe mean?
Cleaning shoe means the part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.
What part of speech is cleaning shoe?
Cleaning shoe is a noun.
What is the plural of cleaning shoe?
The plural of cleaning shoe is cleaning shoes.

Words near cleaning shoe in the dictionary

  1. cleaning off
  2. cleaning one's plate
  3. cleaning out
  4. cleaning rod
  5. cleaning rods
  6. cleaning shoe
  7. cleaning shoes
  8. cleaning sieve
  9. cleaning sieves
  10. cleaning someone's clock
  11. cleaning up

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