| 单词 | dung rake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdung rake dung rake n. a long-handled tool with downward-curving tines, used to rake up, spread, or turn dung; (later also) an attachment for the loader of a tractor or other farm vehicle used for moving or spreading dung. ΚΠ 1641 Pack of Patentees 12 His [sc. the Rag-man's] servants weare his cloth, who ere you finde With little Dung-rakes, and with bags behinde. 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. i. 15 A Hand-Instrument, made with three Irons, that are about half bent, somewhat like our Dung-rake. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 476 The straw litter, which has become foul with excrement, is..well stirred backwards and forwards with the dung-rake [to remove the solid excrement attached to it]. 1942 Spirit Lake (Iowa) Beacon 10 Dec. (advt.) Manchinery..10 foot John Deere disc; spring tooth harrow; 1 dung rake; 1 hay loader, [etc.]. 1978 S. M. Charnas Motherlines xiv. 259 Try avoiding the reputation of the sort of person who attacks other women with a dung rake. 2001 Pract. Farm Ideas Summer 33/2 When the machine is raised out of work the dung rake lifts off the ground. < as lemmas |
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