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  • Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horse-rake (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course) and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out “Gee up, comrade!” or “Whoa back, comrade!” as the case might be.

    Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971

  • We must turn the mowing-machine and horse-rake at the ditch, and finish by hand-labor, the work on its banks; we must construct bridges at frequent intervals, and then go out of our way to cross them with loads, cutting up the smooth fields with wheels and the feet of animals.

    Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

  • It took tools, and they cost money, but some were very primitive, often made by the more ingenious lads, themselves; and when Wolly of the unpronounceable surname actually made a little wheeled cultivator, the harrow being the tooth from a broken horse-rake, and the two wheels a relic from a defunct doll-wagon, he was considered the hero of the school.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horse-rake (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course) and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out ‘Gee up, comrade!

    Animal Farm 1945

  • He had been on the horse-rake, and having finished, came to help her to put the hay in cocks.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • So he's still puzzling over what he regards as an anomaly, a farmerette who knows the difference between De Bussey and a side-delivery horse-rake, a mother of three children who can ride a pinto and play a banjo, a clodhopper in petticoats who can talk about Ragusa and Toarmina and the summer races at Piping Rock.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • He had been on the horse-rake, and having finished, came to help her to put the hay in cocks.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

  • It was the horse-reaper, the horse-rake, the horse-thresher that enabled women and boys to work the farms while husbands, fathers, and elder brothers were at the front.

    Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North 1901

  • In the haying she operated the horse-rake, and helped man the hay-fork in filling the barns.

    Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

  • The tedder also rendered raking by hand too slow, and the horse-rake, patented first in 1841, has immensely improved in the last thirty years.

    A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

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