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haymaker [ˈheɪˌmeɪkə] n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who helps to cut, turn, toss, spread, or carry hay 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called hay conditioner either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying 3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Boxing) Boxing slang a wild swinging punch haymaking adj & n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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! 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. 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. |
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