Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hand-rake used in raking hay.
  • noun A machine for raking hay into windrows; a horse-rake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.

Etymologies

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hay +‎ rake

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Examples

  • There it stood, red and blue, a huge comb, a hayrake to be driven with horses.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • It became necessary for me recently to purchase a hayrake.

    And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman

  • He let them down into the water, so that the weight might swing them inboard, while the other signaller struggled manfully with a hayrake to grapple them; and the Captain cursed and Mac flushed all over, knowing that every ship in the fleet was grinning at them.

    The Tale of a Trooper 1930

  • "Oh! He's in the hayfield, too, riding on the hayrake," Rusty Wren explained.

    The Tale of Rusty Wren Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • "It means that the hayrake will come out of the shed next."

    The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • _You_ don't have to pull the mowing machine nor the hayrake.

    The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • Always a neat and tidy man -- as poachers mostly are -- I took the hayrake back to the field and wound up my lines.

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Diligent research has failed to discover any reliable information on the invention of the hayrake, though a horserake was patented as early as

    The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

  • It might be a pious idea for you to ship up a mowing machine and a hayrake from

    Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

  • "They'll hitch me to the hayrake and Johnnie Green will drive me all day long in the hot hayfields.

    The Tale of Henrietta Hen Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

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