Meaning of thatch-rake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points.
2. 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.

Examples

“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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