Hay
[heɪ]
[heɪ] or [he]
Definition
(noun.) grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
(verb.) convert (plant material) into hay.
Inputed by Allen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hedge.
(n.) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
(v. i.) To lay snares for rabbits.
(n.) Grass cut and cured for fodder.
(v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.
Edited by Jessica
Definition
n. (Shak.) a home-thrust in fencing.
n. a country-dance with winding movement.
n. a hedge fence.—n. Hay′-ward one who herded the common cattle of a town.
n. grass cut down and dried for fodder.—ns. Hay′cock a conical pile of hay in the field; Hay′-fē′ver an ailment mostly met with in early summer marked by excessive irritation of the nose throat &c. and accompanied with violent sneezing and intense headache—also called Hay′-asth′ma; Hay′field a field where hay is made; Hay′-fork a long-handled fork used in turning over hay to dry or in lifting it; Hay′-knife a broad knife with a handle set cross-wise at one end used for cutting hay from a stack; Hay′-loft a loft in which hay is kept; Hay′-mak′er one employed in cutting and drying grass for hay: (pl.) a kind of country-dance; Hay′-mak′ing; Hay′-mow a rick of hay: a mass of hay stored in a barn; Hay′-rick a pile of hay; Hay′-stack a stack of hay; Hay′-ted′der a machine for scattering hay and exposing it to the sun and air.—Look for a needle in a hay-stack to look for something where it is barely possible to be found; Make hay to throw things into confusion; Make hay while the sun shines to seize a favourable opportunity.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of mowing hay, you will find much good in life, and if a farmer your crops will yield abundantly. To see fields of newly cut hay, is a sign of unusual prosperity. If you are hauling and putting hay into barns, your fortune is assured, and you will realize great profit from some enterprise. To see loads of hay passing through the street, you will meet influential strangers who will add much to your pleasure. To feed hay to stock, indicates that you will offer aid to some one who will return the favor with love and advancement to higher states.
Typist: Suzy
Examples
- Did the horse fall in Hay Lane? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Hundredth Psalm, Evening Hymn, hay Pitt? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The hay smelled good and lying in a barn in the hay took away all the years in between. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let the contents of the larder and the wine-cellar be brought up, put into the hay-carts, and driven down to the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One of Birney's most gallant brigade commanders--Alexander Hays--was killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had been at West Point with Hays for three years, and had served with him through the Mexican war, a portion of the time in the same regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Nadine