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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hay" Quotes from Famous Books



... William R. Day, and John Hay as Secretary of State. Other Members of Cabinet. Revival of Business in 1897. Gold Discovery in Yukon, Klondike, and Cape Nome. Alaskan Boundary Controversy Between United States and Great Britain. Joint High Commission Canvasses Boundary ...
— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... a luxury in which only the wealthiest could indulge to a limited extent, but now the owner of a string of thoroughbreds, or a single plater, can train in the South or the North, and in four and twenty hours reach any leading course in the kingdom; carrying with him, if deemed needful, hay, ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney

... find some hay and oats," said the woman, as we were putting on our coats and overshoes in the kitchen, "and here's a lantern. We don't keep no horse ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton

... superior construction, and the women learnt to spin; there was a continual manufacture of brushes, eel-pots, and baskets, which were sold in the English towns, together with turkeys, fish, venison, and fruits, according to the season. At hay and harvest times they would hire themselves out to work for their English neighbours, but were thought unable or unwilling to do what sturdy Englishmen regarded as ...
— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... been equally divided at their father's death. It extended to the left of the spot on which he was standing, almost within a ring fence; the meadows, fresh shorn of their produce, and fragrant with the perfume of new hay—the crops full of promise, and the lazy cattle laving themselves in the standing pond of the abundant farmyard; in a paddock, set apart for his especial use, was the old blind horse his father had bestrode during the last fifteen years of ...
— Turns of Fortune - And Other Tales • Mrs. S. C. Hall


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