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Hay   /heɪ/   Listen
noun
Hay  n.  
1.
A hedge. (Obs.)
2.
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
To dance the hay, to dance in a ring.


Hay  n.  Grass cut and cured for fodder. "Make hay while the sun shines." "Hay may be dried too much as well as too little."
Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock.
Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, rose cold, and rose fever.
Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.
Hay press, a press for baling loose hay.
Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc.
Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning new-mown hay. See Tedder.


verb
Hay  v. i.  To lay snares for rabbits.


Hay  v. i.  To cut and cure grass for hay.





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"Hay" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself amid the reeds. Meanwhile the little queen on her high heels flitted round the cups like a child playing at party-giving, and with a thousand charming touches poured out the boiling coffee, the odor of which blended deliciously with the perfume of the flowers, the hay, and the woods. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... By Hildebrand Claigue. Good Entertainment for Man and Beast,'" he pronounced. "'Entertainment'—that means eating—meat for man; hay for cattle. Not that there's much sign of either in these parts, ...
— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... the classical reminiscences of his guide; but, fearing that Pothier might fall off his horse, which he straddled like a hay-fork, he stopped to allow the worthy notary to ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... had learned from Southey's "Life of Wesley." and from the exquisite hymns we have borrowed from its rhapsodists. The other stranger was a New Englander of respectable appearance, with a grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face, who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle-field and in its immediate neighborhood. There is no reason why I should not mention his name, but I shall content myself with calling him ...
— Pages From an Old Volume of Life - A Collection Of Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... going shares with them. And it would not be very much. Keith, if you were to share with him; and the machine it can be moved about very well; and in the bad weather you could give the cotters some help, to say nothing about our own hay and corn. And that is what Major Stuart was saying yesterday, that if there was any place that you wanted a drying-machine for the crops it was ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black


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