Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . little honkiny, as it is called. Rakes are hand and horse. Specific names indi-cate purpose or construction ; as, hiiy, stubble, bar-ley, manure, liorse, tilting, drag, etc. Hand-rakes are of wood for hay or grain, and ofmetal for garden use. The rake is not represented in the sculptures orpaintings of ancient Egypt. So says seed was covered by the
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . little honkiny, as it is called. Rakes are hand and horse. Specific names indi-cate purpose or construction ; as, hiiy, stubble, bar-ley, manure, liorse, tilting, drag, etc. Hand-rakes are of wood for hay or grain, and ofmetal for garden use. The rake is not represented in the sculptures orpaintings of ancient Egypt. So says seed was covered by the plow, hoe, or by tramp-ing of goats; probably, also, by dragging bushesover it. The Roman hoe (raster, a scraper), when its bladewas divided to form teeth, was known as raster-li-dciis or qimdridcns,ete., according to the number ofprongs. It wa% the ordinary tool for stirring theground when deep digging by the spade {pala) wasnot refiuired. The hay or grain hand-rake (a) in the UnitedStates is made of wood, and the same rake answerstor either. The material will vary with the place,but the general statement may be made that thehandle and head .should be of a material strong inproportion to its weight, say red-elm or sassafras ;. Hakes. and the teeth of the strongest wood procurable, sayhickory. In England, willow is for the handleand head, ash for the teeth. The handle is mortised RAKE. 1876 RAKE. into the head anil stayed by a round rod passingthrough tlie handlt; and into the head, where theends are split and wedged, or secured by pins. b is the Japanese rake. Grain-rakes in Britain are made of large size forraking and gleaning the stuljbles : the head is 4 feetlong; the teeth of iron, 4 inches long and IJ inchesapait. One variety has wheels at the end 9 inches in di-ameter ; the rake of the teeth is adjustable. It isused for grain or hay, and was the precursor of ourmore ambitious horse-rakcs. In Scotland, a rake is used with a jointed head long. The handle has
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