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ˈhaymaker
[f. hay n.1]
1. A man or woman employed in making hay; esp. one engaged in lifting, tossing, and spreading the hay after it is mown.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 582/36 Fenissa, a heymakere. 1528MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For mete & drynk for the hay makers. 1590Greene Never too late (1600) 103 A womans smile is as good to a Louer, as a sunshine day to a haymaker. 1770Wesley Jrnl. 28 July, A shower brought all the haymakers home. 1853Lytton My Novel i. iii, For the refreshment of the thirsty haymakers.
2. An apparatus for shaking up and drying hay.
1853Catal. R. Agric. Soc. Show Gloucester 67 Patent Improved Double Action Haymaker. 1862J. Wilson Farming 149 Haymakers are valuable implements.
3. pl. The name of a country-dance. Also called haymakers' jig.
4. a. A swinging blow. slang or colloq.
1912Ade Knocking Neighbors 87 Every time he landed a crushing Hay-Maker on her Family History she countered with a short-arm Jolt. 1918Amer. Mag. Apr. 113/3 ‘Gitteloutahere,’ panted Slough, aiming a hay⁓maker at Doug. 1924Glasgow Herald 18 July 10 It was not at all improbable that Eagan would bring over a ‘haymaker’ and put the Englishman out. 1925J. J. Corbett Roar of Crowd 87, I deliberately pulled my right back and swung ‘hay-makers’ at Choinyski, intending to miss him. 1938I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure xxix. 305 Mrs. Medvedeff..emerged once more and landed a haymaker on her husband's chin. 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xlii. 442 ‘I'm going to punch Captain Black right in the nose the next time I see him,’ gloried the chaplain, throwing two left jabs in the air and then a clumsy haymaker. ‘Just like that.’ 1972‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing (1973) xxii. 189 Rising from a collision, he had thrown off his glove and landed a haymaker.
b. Cricket. A sweeping stroke with the bat.
1954J. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 117 Davidson tried his luck with a hay-maker off Tattersall and Graveney..took a splendid catch. 1955Times 24 June 14/2 There were only a few haymakers from Wardle left. |