hay rake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hay rake
First recorded in 1715–25
Example Sentences
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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.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
He yelled, jumping into the air and waving his hay rake to attract additional attention.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
You couldn’t get thro’ it with a hay rake.
From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum
Abandoned implements littered the dooryard; a rusted hay rake with one wheel gone, a broken mower with cutter-bar drunkenly erect, and the front trucks of a dilapidated wagon.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
No light gleams from a friendly window, only the shadowy form of a hay rake left out by some farmer suggests human companionship.
From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine
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