rake

1. verb, to rake hay with a hay rake; 2. also noun, ‘raking’, the act of ‘rake, v.’

1.
“I was a farmerette. And I was raking hay with Nelly and Doll, the horses, on a rake.”

“You mowed it. You raked it. You helped baling it and putting it in the barn.”

“Did you meet Minnie the Mare?”
“Oh yes. Yeah, I drove her lots. Yeah. We used to have her here in the summer. I used rake hay with her.”

2.
“My sister done a lot of mowing and raking with the horses.”

“In the summer we had to, of course, help hay. And the old-fashioned raking with the old rake and the hay loader and stuff like that.”

“I never mowed away hay, but I drove horse fork. I did the raking and all the farm things.”