hay rake

Or hayrake

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hay rake¹

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.

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“It’s appropriate equipment for my operation,” says Morgan, who’s gotten some funny looks from neighbors and motorists driving by as he’s out with his walk-behind mower, hay rake or baler around his 12-acre property, something he said is “just a little, self-sufficient homestead.”

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On a crisp autumn morning, the congregation filed in early to view the decorations around the altar: cider press, hay rake, ploughshares, a little log shed, quilts and milk cans, shocks of cornstalk, fragrant pine trees cut from the campus, two lambs and three chickens - all the signs of the season.

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One mower, one hay rake, one tedder, one hay loader, one corn harvester, one grain harvester, one grain drill, one manure spreader, one potato digger, one potato planter, can do their work on a 250 acre farm as readily as on a small farm.

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One evening a few weeks ago, a man was impaled on the handle of a hay rake by a wolflike demon that had risen from hell at the behest of a satanic cult.

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