DCHP-1 Online
hay-knife 
n. See 1962 quote.
- 1909 When [the stack] has settled into shape and solidity it is both frost and rain proof, and often requires a hay-knife to get into it.
- 1962 The three of us trudged down to the far end of the meadow, carrying shovels, a fork, a scythe, and a hay knife, a contraption like a straight-ended shovel only jagged and sharp which one uses by thrusting downward into the stack to cut the hay when one wishes to use one end of a stack and leave the remainder untouched.
- 1909 When [the stack] has settled into shape and solidity it is both frost and rain proof, and often requires a hay-knife to get into it.