lawn rake

Use a metal lawn rake to pull off dead grass and weeds.

Half a tube of lamp black provided eyelashes that looked like lawn rakes.

Going over the turf with a fan-shaped metal or bamboo lawn rake accomplishes several things.

Rake like an athlete with the Slapshot lawn rake, designed like a hockey stick.

Chadbourne invented an instrument known as the electric rake, made by attaching an electric guitar pickup to an ordinary lawn rake.

So to counteract this I brush my mole hills into the surrounding grass as if it were turf dressing, using a lawn rake upside down to scatter it as smoothly as possible.

Although not used more often than once a year in autumn, this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying (breaking up and loosening the surface of) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake.

Her fingers lengthened, talons extending from the tips until her hands were spread as wide as the lawn rakes on a display behind her, and a fetid smell of decay and worse flooded out.

Lawn rake The most common type is fan-shaped with close-set wire tines and is used gently to remove surface rubbish from the lawn and to lift long stems to blade height so they will be cut off.

Occasionally, a lawn rake is used with pressure to break up and loosen the surface of the turf and rake out dead matted growth, or 'thatch', from beneath the surface to improve water penetration and aeration.

When he could sit still no longer, he got the lawn rake from the garage and set to work on the grass clippings as the ball-park announcer chanted the summer myth yet again and the afternoon heat continued to build.

That may explain why customers looking for wing bolts or lawn rakes at Ardsley Hardware may hear an animated patter - "Ya got trouble my friend, trouble right here in River City" - coming from the stock room.

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, said yesterday that it would stop selling handguns in its 2,000 stores because its marketing surveys indicated a majority of customers now feel "uncomfortable" shopping for lingerie, sofas, lawn rakes and teddy bears in the same place where revolvers and semiautomatic pistols are stocked.

When the rubble was cleared, and the lawns raked, and low shrubs put in place to hide the scars of building, Rosa- lind's Revenge stood revealed, and no part of the beautifully balanced five-part structure was more ideally suited to its purpose than the original cube,which had evoked such cynical merriment.