A tool with multiple tines or prongs used to gather, turn, and arrange cut hay into piles for drying and collection.
From 'hay' + 'rake' (from Old English 'raca,' of Scandinavian origin). The hayrake evolved from simple wooden rakes to sophisticated horse-drawn mechanical tools by the 19th century.
The mechanical hayrake was one of agriculture's great innovations—before it, farmers used hand rakes and lost days to tedious labor; after its invention in the 1800s, one person could rake what previously took five, fundamentally changing farm economics.
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