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

“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.”

From Washington Times

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.

From Washington Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

You couldn’t get thro’ it with a hay rake.

From Project Gutenberg