Meaning of cleaning shoe | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A brake shoe used to clean a wheel.

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

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