Haymaker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haymaker \Hay"mak`er\ (h[=a]"m[=a]k`[~e]r), n.
     1. One who cuts and cures hay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     3. A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked
        down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his
        opponent's jaw. [slang]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haymaker
       n 1: a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even
            drying [syn: {hay conditioner}]
       2: a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue
          boxing [syn: {knockout punch}, {KO punch}, {Sunday punch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "haymaker":
     Bauer, Long Melford, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist,
     agronomist, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bolo punch, box,
     buffet, chop, clout, coffee-planter, collective farm worker,
     crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer,
     farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower,
     harvester, harvestman, hook, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik,
     kulak, muzhik, one-two, paste, peasant, peasant holder, picker,
     planter, plowboy, plowman, poke, punch, raiser, rancher, ranchman,
     reaper, round-arm blow, roundhouse, rustic, sharecropper,
     short-arm blow, sidewinder, smack, sock, sower, swing, tea-planter,
     tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, uppercut,
     yeoman