name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
haymaker
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈheɪmeɪkɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: HH EY1 M EY2 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 3
A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 4
Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
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noun
Meaning 5
a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug
noun
Meaning 6
a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hay conditioner
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: farm machine
History
Etymology
An occupational surname, from haymaker.
From Middle English heymakere; equivalent to hay + maker.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 割乾草的人 /割干草的人 (gē gāncǎo de rén) — person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder
- Chinese Mandarin: 製草機 /制草机 (machine) — person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder
- Finnish: heinäntekijä — person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder
- Finnish: niittokone — person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder
- Chinese Mandarin: 勾拳 — particularly powerful punch
- Dutch: rotklap — particularly powerful punch
- Dutch: knock-out — particularly powerful punch
- Esperanto: pugnobatego — particularly powerful punch
- Finnish: tyrmäysisku — particularly powerful punch
- Finnish: isku — particularly powerful punch
- Russian: нокаут (nokaut) — particularly powerful punch
- Ukrainian: косар (kosar) — particularly powerful punch
- Ukrainian: косильник (kosylʹnyk) — particularly powerful punch
- Chinese Mandarin: 決定性的打擊 /决定性的打击 (juédìngxìng de dǎjī) — any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action
- Finnish: tyrmäysisku — any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action
- Finnish: isku — any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action