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hay rake

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noun

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

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Origin of hay rake

First recorded in 1715–25

Words nearby hay rake

Haymarket Square, haymow, Haynes, Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, hayrack, hay rake, hayrick, hayride, Hays, hay-scented fern, hayseed

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How to use hay rake in a sentence

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.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts
She was fiddle-headed and as lean as a hay-rake, but in build she was every inch a grand piece of horse-flesh.
The Night Riders|Ridgwell Cullum
After cutting, the curd is stirred first by hand and later with an ordinary wooden hay rake.
The Book of Cheese|Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
A wooden hay rake or a McPherson curd agitator (Figs. 33, 34) may be used to stir the curd.
The Book of Cheese|Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk

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.
Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle