hay rake

or hayrake

noun

1. a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hay rake¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

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 Literature

“It’s appropriate equipment for my operation,” says Morgan, who’s gotten some funny looks from neighbors and motorists driving by as he’s out with his walk-behind mower, hay rake or baler around his 12-acre property, something he said is “just a little, self-sufficient homestead.”

From Washington Times

On a crisp autumn morning, the congregation filed in early to view the decorations around the altar: cider press, hay rake, ploughshares, a little log shed, quilts and milk cans, shocks of cornstalk, fragrant pine trees cut from the campus, two lambs and three chickens - all the signs of the season.

From Washington Times

“So it was back there, as I subversively hoped that my elder would make a rare bad guess and hire some breezy faker whose team of horses would run away with him the instant he climbed onto the hay rake ..., that I developed an abiding interest in the trait called character and its even more seductive flowering into a plural form, characters.”

From Seattle Times

“So it was back there, as I subversively hoped that my elder would make a rare bad guess and hire some breezy faker whose team of horses would run away with him the instant he climbed onto the hay rake ..., that I developed an abiding interest in the trait called character and its even more seductive flowering into a plural form, characters.”

From Seattle Times