hay 
hay (hā)
noun
- grass, alfalfa, clover, etc. cut and dried for use as fodder
- Slang bed, often, specif., as a place for sexual intercourse
- ☆ Slang a small amount, esp. of money a hundred dollars ain't hay
Etymology: ME hei < OE hieg (akin to Ger heu) < base of OE heawan, to cut: see hew
intransitive verb
to mow grass, alfalfa, etc., and spread it out to dry
transitive verb
- to furnish with hay
- to grow grass on (land) for hay
hit the hay
☆Slang to go to bed to sleep
make hay
- to mow grass, alfalfa, etc., and spread it out to dry
- to make the most of an opportunity
make hay (out) of
to turn (something) to one's advantage
make hay while the sun shines
to make the most of an opportunity
hay (hā)
noun
an old country dance with much winding in and out
Etymology: OFr haye
Hay (hā)
Hay, John (Milton) 1838-1905; U.S. statesman & writer: secretary of state (1898-1905)
hay
n.
Types of hay include: red clover, wild hay, timothy, sweetgrass, alsike, sweet clover, soybeans, swamp hay, alfalfa, oat hay, millet.
hit the hay*
make hay out of
make hay while the sun shines
Preposition: while
- shine: But take it today and'make hay while the sun shines ' because who knows what will happen tomorrow?
Converse of object
- mow: What you smell as a rose, I may smell as mown hay.
- new-mow: They smell fishy, or some people say, of new-mown hay or Jasmine tea.
- bale: This was a fire involving approximately 150 tons of baled hay.
- soak: A soft feed and soaked hay is preferable as this can be swallowed easier.
- eat: They were housed and eating Sheepdrove hay, but they are out all summer.
- feed: The animals graze in the summer and are fed hay, straw or silage in the winter.
Adjective modifier
- contaminated: Notes: Does not lose its toxicity after drying and storage and contaminated hay has caused many problems.
- unlimited: Hay is vital - all rabbits at any age need access to unlimited, good quality hay.
- fresh: Having fresh hay to nibble on all day can help to wear their teeth down.
Modifies a noun
- fever: The hay fever season is a common time for asthma to get worse.
- meadow: In the autumn the cattle spend time grazing the hay meadows within the Paxton Pits nature reserve.
- bale: Some of the straw from the hay bale burnt out my back break in the 450 race.
- loft: The coach men rested in the hay loft whilst the travelers stayed at the Inn.
- sufferer: Pollen counts are taken during the summer months to warn hay fever sufferers of high levels.
- wagon: The sewers, covered with a vault of tightly fitted stones, have room in some places for hay wagons to drive through them.
Noun used with modifier
- timothy: Try encouraging your rabbit by putting some of his or her droppings into the box or try using timothy hay or treats.
- alfalfa: In winter, some additional fodder, such as grass or alfalfa hay may be provided.
- meadow: Good meadow hay, especially organic hay, will also provide these elements.
- grass: Feed them meadow ( grass hay ) or timothy hay in unlimited amounts.
You will eat, byand by, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the hay And the enemy half a mile away. They seemed no threat to us at all.
It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.
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