[syn: haymaker, knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haymaker \Hay"mak`er\ (h[=a]"m[=a]k`[~e]r), n.
1. One who cuts and cures hay.
[1913 Webster]
2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
[1913 Webster]
3. A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked
down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his
opponent's jaw. [slang]
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
haymaker
n 1: a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even
drying [syn: haymaker, hay conditioner]
2: a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue
boxing [syn: haymaker, knockout punch, KO punch,
Sunday punch]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "haymaker":
Bauer, Long Melford, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist,
agronomist, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bolo punch, box,
buffet, chop, clout, coffee-planter, collective farm worker,
crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer,
farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower,
harvester, harvestman, hook, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik,
kulak, muzhik, one-two, paste, peasant, peasant holder, picker,
planter, plowboy, plowman, poke, punch, raiser, rancher, ranchman,
reaper, round-arm blow, roundhouse, rustic, sharecropper,
short-arm blow, sidewinder, smack, sock, sower, swing, tea-planter,
tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, uppercut,
yeoman