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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hay-knife (which see).
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This done, he concealed the body, as it may readily be supposed, among the bushes, that usually encompass a pond, and the next night, when it grew duskish, fetching a hay-spade from a rick that stood in a close, he made a hole by the side of the pond, and there slightly buried the woman in her cloaths.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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