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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