haymaker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hay=mak=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

haymaker, n. 

•  One who cuts and cures hay.  [1913 Webster]
•  A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.  [1913 Webster]
•  A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his opponent's jaw.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

haymaker, n.
1 a person who tosses and spreads hay to dry after mowing.
2 an apparatus for shaking and drying hay.
3 sl. a forceful blow or punch.

Derivative

haymaking n.

THESAURUS

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