"vending-machine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1889 December 17, Henry T. Crepeau, “Automatic Vending-Machine”, in United States Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume CXXV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1739, column 2:",
          "text": "In an automatic vending-machine, the combination, with the case and the goods-drawer arranged to slide therein, and the locking devices for the latter, of the movable partition and the locking-tongue projecting downward into the money-receptacle, the chute extending from the locking devices upward to a point near the top of the partition, and the movable block provided with a slot and adapted to connect the slotted case-front with the chute, substantially as set forth.",
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          "ref": "1984 April 10, “Cryptic Crossword”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, late edition, number 45,641, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 3:",
          "text": "Love-apple in Canberra’s university put out of order a vending-machine.",
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          "ref": "2000 April 20, Bob Morris, “Buddy can you spare a two?”, in Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo., →OCLC, page A11, column 5:",
          "text": "If we carry two-dollar bills, we’ll never have to carry more than one Sacajawea, and those one-dollar coins will save vending-machines, mass-transit systems, and pay telephones hundreds of millions of dollars more.",
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          "text": "In an automatic vending-machine, the combination, with the case and the goods-drawer arranged to slide therein, and the locking devices for the latter, of the movable partition and the locking-tongue projecting downward into the money-receptacle, the chute extending from the locking devices upward to a point near the top of the partition, and the movable block provided with a slot and adapted to connect the slotted case-front with the chute, substantially as set forth.",
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