thatch rake meaning: definition, quotations

thatch rake

nounalso spelled thatch-rake

A rake with double-edged, crescent-shaped blades, used for slicing through and pulling out thatch from a lawn.

You may want to entertain buying a thatch rake that is more sturdy. One side of this rake has curved points for raking and the other side has flared points for cultivating, seeding, or working fertilizer into the ground.2004, Thomas J. Neviaser, Man's Unofficial Guide to the Use of His Garage, →ISBN, page 59:
Use a thatch rake that has specially designed blades instead of normal tines. You'll need some elbow grease to work the rake into the lawn and remove the thatch.2004, Jerry Baker, Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic, →ISBN:

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A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake.2007, Trey Rogers, Lawn Geek: Tips and Tricks for the Ultimate Turf From the Guru of Grass, →ISBN:

Alternative Alternative form of thatch-rake.

The fire engine, presented to the town in 1700, was frequently in service, and compulsory thatch rakes, for pulling burning thatch from buildings, hung on the fronts of buildings with a tub of water beneath.1978, Ivan Green, The book of Dover: Cinque Port, port of the passage, gateway to England:
On the mezzanine floor, where the main Norfolk Studies stock had been, my abiding memory is of a fireman in breathing apparatus holding a hose and a thatch rake spraying and raking over a three foot high pile of burning paper and ash.1996, Hilary Hammond, “Norfolk and Norwich Central Library: the emerging phoenix”, in New Library World, volume 97, number 8:

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He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes.2011, Stephen W. Trout, My Father's Son, →ISBN, page 128:

Synonyms: thatching rake, de-thatching rake, cavex rake

thatch-rake

noun

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

He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.1897, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler - Volume 10, page 542:
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.1898, Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary - Volume 34, page 177:

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... 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.1974, Garry Hogg, The English Country Inn, page 50:

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics 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.

A. __Puckering, impaling, S. three thatch-rakes1796, Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent, page 331:
See Plate XLVI. fig. 10, viz. three thatch-rakes, barwise.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:

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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.1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 488:
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.1971, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry:

Synonyms: thatcher's rake