horse rake

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

It is a religious churn, or a moral horse-rake, or a consecrated fly trap.

We called him Goliath, he was so tall: strong as an elephant, too: a powerful hand at a horse-rake and mowing-machine.

For pulling field peas, and some kinds of beans, the old style revolving horse rake is still in use.

That beautiful green passageway happened to be a short cut from the meadow, and horse-rake and hay-wagon made the ravage complete.

One of the earlier mechanical inventions in connexion with haymaking was that of the horse rake (fig. 4).

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