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haymaker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun haymaker has 2 senses
- haymaker(n = noun.artifact) hay conditioner - a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying; Array is a kind of farm machine
- haymaker(n = noun.act) knockout punch, ko punch, sunday punch - a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing; Array is a kind of biff, clout, lick, poke, punch, slug
CIDE DICTIONARY
haymaker, n.
- One who cuts and cures hay. [1913 Webster]
- A machine for curing hay in rainy weather. [1913 Webster]
- A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his opponent's jaw. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
haymaker, n.
1 a person who tosses and spreads hay to dry after mowing.
2 an apparatus for shaking and drying hay.
3 sl. a forceful blow or punch.
1 a person who tosses and spreads hay to dry after mowing.
2 an apparatus for shaking and drying hay.
3 sl. a forceful blow or punch.
Derivative
haymaking n.
THESAURUS
haymaker
Bauer, Long Melford, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bolo punch, box, buffet, chop, clout, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, hook, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, one-two, paste, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, poke, punch, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, round-arm blow, roundhouse, rustic, sharecropper, short-arm blow, sidewinder, smack, sock, sower, swing, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, uppercut, yeoman
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