Crossword clues for haymaker
haymaker
- Knockout punch
- Strong connection?
- A farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
- A hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
- Dempsey or Louis specialty
- Tyson tumbler
- Grass brand right for blow
- A blow for one working in the field while the sun shines?
- One's top and cap removed, tourist gives hand on farm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haymaker \Hay"mak`er\ (h[=a]"m[=a]k`[~e]r), n.
One who cuts and cures hay.
A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his opponent's jaw. [slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context agriculture English) A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder. 2 (context informal fisticuffs English) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knock down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms. 3 (context figuratively by extension English) Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
WordNet
n. a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying [syn: hay conditioner]
a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing [syn: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch]
Wikipedia
Haymaker may refer to:
- A type of punch, a wild swing with all of a person's might to knock out the opponent
- Conditioner (farming), a type of farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
- Panaeolina foenisecii, a species of common mushroom
- Haymaker (album), an album by the American metal band Throwdown
- Haymaker (band), a Canadian country rock band
- David Haye (born 1980), a British boxing world champion nicknamed the Haye-maker, after the punch
Haymaker is the third full-length release by the band Throwdown.
Haymaker is a Canadian country rock band formed in 2007. The band signed with On Ramp Records in February 2008 and released their debut album, Wrong Place, Right Time on July 29, 2008. One of their six members is Zack Werner, a judge on the television show Canadian Idol.
Usage examples of "haymaker".
The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.
We equipped them with apple parers, corers and slicers and set them to work in the basement of the haymaker.
Meantime, the jolly blaze uprose and fell, flashing and gleaming on the little Haymaker at the top of the Dutch clock, until one might have thought he stood stock still before the Moorish Palace, and nothing was in motion but the flame.
The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.
She was pointing to the north and I knew it could be only at the haymakers at the far end of the field.
The haymakers were at least six hundred yards away, building their first haystack of the day close in to what looked, even at that distance, to be a pretty ancient and decrepit Dutch barn.
I got the barn between them and the haymakers on the one hand and myself on the other, ran quickly across the intervening space and let myself in by a side door.
I think the odd sense of apprehension sprang from the least unlikely source, the actual haymakers themselves, for not even here, in their native setting, did those flowing striped robes, those exquisitely embroidered dresses and snowy wimple hats appear quite natural.
Together they walked towards the haymakers, presumably to summon them to their morning break, for Herta was spreading a chequered cloth on the ground and laying out cups and unwrapping food from folded napkins.
They see the wild swings and haymakers but they miss most of the real punishing blows—the short, quick smashes landed in close.
After nearly throwing our arms out of place missing haymakers, we abandoned this futile and aimless mode of combat and having stumbled into each other, we got each other by the neck with our lefts and hammered away with our rights.
Then he might hear the noise of the haymakers, if he was lucky with the wind, and could hearken his way home by that.
Nicholas let his lungs heave a couple of times and then produced his only punch of the night, a haymaker containing every bit of strength he had left, which caught Mr Piffer on the chin and sent him toppling backwards over the ropes and out of the ring.
Haymakers scythed steadily in a meadow a half-mile away, while much further off, far beyond the blur of fields and woods, dust whitened the sky.