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Definition of Hayrack
1. Noun. A rack that holds hay for feeding livestock.
2. Noun. A frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.
Definition of Hayrack
1. n. A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
Definition of Hayrack
1. Noun. A freestanding vertical drying-rack for animal fodder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hayrack
1. a frame used in hauling hay [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hayrack
Literary usage of Hayrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"Properly a hayrack, a receptacle for hay, consisting of rods or parallel bars,
like the teeth of a comb or rake, through which the cattle pull the hay. ..."
2. The Thirty Years' War on Silver: Money Scientifically Treated and Logically by Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald (1903)
"He said money was a hayrack, and, ... everyone knows that a hayrack is a kind of
a "agon wagon, a wagon for hauling hay. He pictured in glowing colors how ..."
3. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1908)
"Mr. Stillings, who was employed as a teamster, was driving a pair of horses
attached to a hayrack. The highway leading towards the crossing over which he ..."
4. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1903)
"He was standing up next the front rail of the hayrack as he was thus driving.
When first seen by any of the witnesses, he was driving along Portland street ..."
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