Examples from the Web for haymaker
But we never really raised a melon fit for the table until the old Squire and Addison invented the "haymaker."
The girls' suggestion gave us the idea of using the haymaker as a big hothouse.
The sum total might be a quart, but would it be the same thing to the haymaker?Feeding the Mind|Lewis Carroll
I am sunburnt, freckled, and altogether odious—like a haymaker or a market woman.Phantom Fortune, A Novel|M. E. Braddon
But when thundershowers or occasional fogs or heavy dew came it was always open to us to put the grass through the haymaker.
British Dictionary definitions for haymaker
Word Origin and History for haymaker
mid-15c. as the name of an agricultural occupation (hay-making is attested from c.1400); 1910 in the sense of "very strong blow with the fist," from hay + agent noun of make; the punch probably so called for resemblance to the wide swinging stroke of a scythe. Haymaker punch attested from 1907.