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haymaker

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hay·mak·er  (hmkr)
n. Slang
A powerful blow with the fist.
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Noun1.haymaker - a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
hay conditioner
farm machine - a machine used in farming
2.haymakerhaymaker - a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch
biff, punch, lick, clout, poke, slug - (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"
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As if the clock hadn't finished striking, and the convulsive little Haymaker at the top of it, jerking away right and left with a scythe in front of a Moorish Palace, hadn't mowed down half an acre of imaginary grass before the Cricket joined in at all!
The Cricket on the Hearth by Dickens, Charles View in context
Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could - though that warn't as often as you may think, till you put the question whether you would ha' been over-ready to give me work yourselves - a bit of a poacher, a bit of a labourer, a bit of a waggoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don't pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Strike, says the smith, the iron is white; keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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