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hay rake

or hayrake

noun

  1. a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hay rake1

First recorded in 1715–25

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Example Sentences

As it chanced, however, seeing out of only one eye, he backed upon the handle of a hay rake which was leaning against the wall.

She was fiddle-headed and as lean as a hay-rake, but in build she was every inch a grand piece of horse-flesh.

After cutting, the curd is stirred first by hand and later with an ordinary wooden hay rake.

A wooden hay rake or a McPherson curd agitator (Figs. 33, 34) may be used to stir the curd.

And these new means were the hay tedder to stir it, the horse hay-rake, the great hay-forks to load, and the hay-stackers.

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