cleaning shoe

English

Upper sieve of a cleaning shoe for a combine

Noun

cleaning shoe (plural cleaning shoes)

1. (agriculture) 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. (rail transport, machinery) A brake shoe used to clean a wheel
   • 1913, Pennsylvania Railroad Test Dept., Brake Tests‎^[1], page 245:

     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.

Meronyms

• (parts of a cleaning shoe): chaffer, sieve, blower

Translations

part of a combine

• German: Reinigungsvorrichtung f
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brake shoe used for cleaning

• Korean: 크리닝 슈 (keurining syu)
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