Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A temporary wooden framework placed in a wagon to increase its capacity for light loads, such as hay or seaweed; also, a cheap form of farmwagon having flaring stakes at the sides, used to carry hay.
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Examples
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One side of this tool-house may be used for plows and large implements, hay-rigging, harness, etc.
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It fell to his lot to make the sleds, the stone-boats, the hay-rigging, the ax helves, the flails, to mend the cradles and rakes, to build the haystacks, and once, I remember, he rebuilt the churning machine.
My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922
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His last performance was to ride on barebacked horses and to drive in the hay-rigging.
Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899
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She ran to the window and looked out; there was a great hay-rigging, drawn by four stout horses, and comfortably lined with straw.
Peggy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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I was about getting into a hay-rigging, when my umbrella frightened the horse, and he kicked at me over the fills, smashed the bucket on my arm, and stretched me on my back; but while I lay on my back, his leg being caught under the shaft, I got up, to see him sprawling on the other side.
The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879
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It fell to his lot to make the sleds, the stone-boats, the hay-rigging, the ax helves, the flails, to mend the cradles and rakes, to build the haystacks, and once,
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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She told how it was the way you'd done to Jim Finch that fell from the hay-rigging and broke his arm over to Jake an 'Martin's, haying time. "
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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