What does thatch-rake mean?
Thatch-rake means A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points..
Thatch-rake
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points..
Definitions by Sense
- A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points.
- (heraldry) A representation of such a rake, used as a charge on the field or as a bordure device consisting of a straight line from which periodically project short perpendicular lines with slightly curved tips.
Example Sentences
He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.
And of the implements belonging to farming forming armorial bearings, he says some of the chiefest and most frequent are ploughs, harrows, scythes, and wheels. Others not named by Guillim are dung forks, hay-hooks, rakes, sickles, spades, and thatch-rakes.
... there stand out, imaginatively arranged and mounted, scythes and besoms, wicked-looking hay-knives, two-handed cross-cut tree-felling saws, saddlery and harness-work, ox-yokes and milkmaids' yokes, pitchforks, hay-rakes, ox-horns, antlers, man-traps, wagon-wheels, ploughs and ploughshares, delicately fashioned pony-trap wheels, curved shafts, carriage-lamps, thatch-rakes and goodness-knows-what-else.
A. __Puckering, impaling, S. three thatch-rakes
See Plate XLVI. fig. 10, viz. three thatch-rakes, barwise.
The thatch-rake or thatcher's rake is drawn as in the margin; but it is liable to be confused with the wool-comb and thatch-hook.
The pitchfork, the hay-fork, and the dung-fork, the tillage-rake and the thatch-rake, all occur, but there is little or no difference discernible between one and another, the forks are forks and the rakes rakes.
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Word Forms
- thatch-rakes
- thatch rake
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What is a synonym for thatch-rake?
Common synonyms include thatcher's rake.
What is the opposite of thatch-rake?
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
How do you use thatch-rake in a sentence?
He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.
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