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hay-knife
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1962 quote.
Quotations
1909
When [the stack] has settled into shape and solidity it is both frost and rain proof, and often requires a hay-knife to get into it.
1962
The three of us trudged down to the far end of the meadow, carrying shovels, a fork, a scythe, and a hay knife, a contraption like a straight-ended shovel only jagged and sharp which one uses by thrusting downward into the stack to cut the hay when one wishes to use one end of a stack and leave the remainder untouched.