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

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

"Now, go after them with your patent hay rake," quivered Tom, feeling the full excitement of the thing in this tantalizing cross fire.

From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

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.

Abandoned implements littered the dooryard; a rusted hay rake with one wheel gone, a broken mower with cutter-bar drunkenly erect, and the front trucks of a dilapidated wagon.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

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