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i. An obsolete form of peer1. pea-rake (pē'rāk), n. An agricultural implement especially designed for harvesting the field-pea. It combines a rake for gathering the vines together and on the rake-head a toothed cutter which cuts them off. pear-blight (parʼblīt), n. A very destructive disease of the pear-tree. It destroys trees seemingly in the fullest vigor and health in a few hours, turning the leaves suddenly brown, as if they had pa ed through a hot flame. It is caused by a minute bacterium, which was discovered by Burrill in 1877 and named Micrococcus amylovorus. See Micrococcus and blight. - Pear-blight beetle, the pin-borer.