Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large rake drawn by a horse. See
rake .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rake drawn by a horse.
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- noun A
rake drawn by ahorse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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The toothed, horse-drawn cultivator has nearly displaced "the man with the hoe," while the scythe, slow and back-breaking, is everywhere getting out of the way of the mowing-machine and the horserake.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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Washington was a farmer, yet he never in his life beheld a tomato, nor a cauliflower, nor an eggplant, nor a horserake, nor a drill, nor a reaper and binder, nor a threshing machine, nor a barbed wire fence.
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
frogapplause commented on the word horserake
noun/ A rake drawn by a horse. (Webster's Dictionary)
Horses know how to draw rakes?
May 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word horserake
Rakes allow themselves to be models for horses?
May 4, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word horserake
Don't forget horse-drawn wagons and other conveyances and implements. Horses aren't the sketchy beasts some folks make them out to be. Nearly every horse can become a proficient draughtsman, or draft animal.
May 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word horserake
Don't forget computer-aided design (and drafting), CAD.
May 4, 2010
bilby commented on the word horserake
Not sure if horses could draw curtains. No opposable thumbs and all that.
May 5, 2010