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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



... bird was away to the fields. He meditated as he went. Bob Tryst was all right! If they only had a dozen or two like him! A dozen or two whom they could trust, and who would trust each other and stand firm to form the nucleus of a strike, which could be timed for hay harvest. What slaves these laborers still were! If only they could be relied on, if only they would stand together! Slavery! It WAS slavery; so long as they could be turned out of their homes at will in this fashion. His rebellion against the conditions of their lives, above all against ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... that in early life he had served three years in a French lancer regiment, and had risen from a private to be a sous-lieutenant. He afterwards became a sort of consular agent at Tangier, under old Mr Drummond Hay. Having acquired a perfect knowledge of Arabic, he entered the service of Abd-el-Kader, and under that renowned chief he fought the French for four years and a half. At another time of his life he fitted out a yacht, and carried on a private war with the Riff pirates. He was brigade-major ...
— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
... rubbing his hands, "that he wrote to Joshua Carr last winter, when his mother died, not to let the little place she left, on the Salt Hay Road, and I understand that he is going to make his home there. It is an old house, you know, and not worth much, but it is ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various
... wish to state that it is to my beloved god-daughter, Roberta Beatrix Hay (nee Josselin), that I dedicate this attempt at a biographical ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... out of the stronghold in which he trusted. 'Saved, yet so as by fire.' 'Baptized with the Holy Ghost, even fire.' 'His word is as a fire.' Reader, the work of regeneration and purification is a trying work; may each inquire, Has this fire burnt up my wood, hay, stubble?—Ed. ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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