Haye definition

1806, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register.

Iem, that hee take order with them for husbandlie usage of the haye, and apportionate the provender to be allowed to everye man's charge, according to the number of horses that are in house […]

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1836, Samuel Astley Dunham, Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain, Volume 1.

[…] and he toke the horse and the haye, and lept upon the horse and rode to the gentlemannys place […]

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A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
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Origin of haye

  • From Dutch haai (“shark”) or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl (“shark”) (a compound of hár, "high, great" + karl, "man"). The German Hai and the Swedish haj are from the same source.

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Haye Sentence Examples

  • The French ambassador, de la Haye, had delayed bringing him the customary gifts, with the idea that he would, like his predecessors, speedily give place to a new grand vizier; Kuprili was bitterly offended, and, on pretext of an abuse of the immunities of diplomatic correspondence, bastinadoed the ambassador's son and cast him and the ambassador himself into prison.

  • Both these farms were strengthened; but, still nervous about his right flank, the duke occupied Hougoumont in much greater force than La Haye Sainte, and massed the bulk of his troops on his right.

  • Ney was now ordered to attack La Haye Sainte again, but the attack failed.

  • Napoleon now ordered Ney to carry La Haye Sainte at whatever cost, and this the marshal accomplished with the wrecks of D'Erlon's corps soon after 6 P.M.

  • The earliest books are Sir Gilbert Haye's Buke of the Law of Arms, Buke of the Order of Knighthood, and Government of Princes, preserved in a single MS. at Abbotsford.

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