"thatch rake" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Thomas J. Neviaser, Man's Unofficial Guide to the Use of His Garage, →ISBN, page 59:",
          "text": "You may want to entertain buying a thatch rake that is more sturdy. One side of this rake has curved points for raking and the other side has flared points for cultivating, seeding, or working fertilizer into the ground.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jerry Baker, Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Use a thatch rake that has specially designed blades instead of normal tines. You'll need some elbow grease to work the rake into the lawn and remove the thatch.",
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          "ref": "2007, Trey Rogers, Lawn Geek: Tips and Tricks for the Ultimate Turf From the Guru of Grass, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake.",
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        "A rake with double-edged, crescent-shaped blades, used for slicing through and pulling out thatch from a lawn."
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          "ref": "1978, Ivan Green, The book of Dover: Cinque Port, port of the passage, gateway to England:",
          "text": "The fire engine, presented to the town in 1700, was frequently in service, and compulsory thatch rakes, for pulling burning thatch from buildings, hung on the fronts of buildings with a tub of water beneath.",
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          "ref": "1996, Hilary Hammond, “Norfolk and Norwich Central Library: the emerging phoenix”, in New Library World, volume 97, number 8:",
          "text": "On the mezzanine floor, where the main Norfolk Studies stock had been, my abiding memory is of a fireman in breathing apparatus holding a hose and a thatch rake spraying and raking over a three foot high pile of burning paper and ash.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Stephen W. Trout, My Father's Son, →ISBN, page 128:",
          "text": "He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes.",
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          "word": "thatching rake"
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          "word": "de-thatching rake"
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          "word": "cavex rake"
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          "ref": "2004, Thomas J. Neviaser, Man's Unofficial Guide to the Use of His Garage, →ISBN, page 59:",
          "text": "You may want to entertain buying a thatch rake that is more sturdy. One side of this rake has curved points for raking and the other side has flared points for cultivating, seeding, or working fertilizer into the ground.",
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          "text": "Use a thatch rake that has specially designed blades instead of normal tines. You'll need some elbow grease to work the rake into the lawn and remove the thatch.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Trey Rogers, Lawn Geek: Tips and Tricks for the Ultimate Turf From the Guru of Grass, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake.",
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          "ref": "1996, Hilary Hammond, “Norfolk and Norwich Central Library: the emerging phoenix”, in New Library World, volume 97, number 8:",
          "text": "On the mezzanine floor, where the main Norfolk Studies stock had been, my abiding memory is of a fireman in breathing apparatus holding a hose and a thatch rake spraying and raking over a three foot high pile of burning paper and ash.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes.",
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      "word": "thatching rake"
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