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cleaning shoe

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  1. The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks…

    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.

  2. 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.

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