Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hand-rake used in raking hay.
- noun A machine for raking hay into windrows; a horse-rake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rake for collectinghay ; especially, a large rake drawn by ahorse or horses.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There it stood, red and blue, a huge comb, a hayrake to be driven with horses.
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It became necessary for me recently to purchase a hayrake.
And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman
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He let them down into the water, so that the weight might swing them inboard, while the other signaller struggled manfully with a hayrake to grapple them; and the Captain cursed and Mac flushed all over, knowing that every ship in the fleet was grinning at them.
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"Oh! He's in the hayfield, too, riding on the hayrake," Rusty Wren explained.
The Tale of Rusty Wren Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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"It means that the hayrake will come out of the shed next."
The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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_You_ don't have to pull the mowing machine nor the hayrake.
The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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Always a neat and tidy man -- as poachers mostly are -- I took the hayrake back to the field and wound up my lines.
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Diligent research has failed to discover any reliable information on the invention of the hayrake, though a horserake was patented as early as
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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It might be a pious idea for you to ship up a mowing machine and a hayrake from
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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"They'll hitch me to the hayrake and Johnnie Green will drive me all day long in the hot hayfields.
The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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