hay rake

American  

Or hayrake

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of hay rake

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

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hay rake

Carl Tiflin still drove her to a light cart, and she pulled on a hay rake and worked the Jackson-fork tackle when the hay was being put into the barn.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

He was as fresh as a collard and as ingenuous as a hay rake.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

We had a breaking plow, a mowing machine, a hay rake and a hay baler, all horse-drawn.

From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar

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.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

I could not see her face, but her brown hair escaped in disorder from a white sun-bonnet, and her still browner hands held a well-worn hay rake.

From The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Blackwood, Algernon