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noun

a large-wheeled rake drawn by a horse.

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Origin of horse rake

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

Words nearby horse rake

horse race, horse racing, horseradish, horseradish peroxidase, horseradish tree, horse rake, horse's ass, horse sense, horseshit, horseshoe, horseshoe arch

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How to use horse rake in a sentence

It is a religious churn, or a moral horse-rake, or a consecrated fly trap.
Around The Tea-Table|T. De Witt Talmage
We called him Goliath, he was so tall: strong as an elephant, too: a powerful hand at a horse-rake and mowing-machine.
Miss Elliot's Girls|Mrs Mary Spring Corning
For pulling field peas, and some kinds of beans, the old style revolving horse rake is still in use.
Farm Mechanics|Herbert A. Shearer
That beautiful green passageway happened to be a short cut from the meadow, and horse-rake and hay-wagon made the ravage complete.
Upon The Tree-Tops|Olive Thorne Miller

One of the earlier mechanical inventions in connexion with haymaking was that of the horse rake (fig. 4).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 1|Various