thatch-rake

Noun

thatch-rake (plural thatch-rakes)

1. A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points.
   • He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.1897, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler - Volume 10, page 542
   • And of the implements belonging to farming forming armorial bearings, he says some of the chiefest and most frequent are ploughs, harrows, scythes, and wheels. Others not named by Guillim are dung forks, hay-hooks, rakes, sickles, spades, and thatch-rakes.1898, Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary - Volume 34, page 177
2. A representation of such a rake, used as a charge on the field or as a bordure device consisting of a straight line from which periodically project short perpendicular lines with slightly curved tips.
   • A. __Puckering, impaling, S. three thatch-rakes1796, Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent, page 331
   • See Plate XLVI. fig. 10, viz. three thatch-rakes, barwise.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry