Haye meaning

A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
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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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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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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

  • Louis Marie De La Haye, Vicomte De Cormenin >>

  • RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650), French philosopher, was born at La Haye, in Touraine, midway between Tours and Poitiers, on the 31st of March 1596, and died at Stockholm on the 1th of February 1650.

  • be for come, the fourthe for his leyse, the fyfte for his commen pastures, and the sixte for his haye; and in wynter time there is but one occupied with come, and than hath the husbande other fyue to occupy tyll lente come, and that he hath his falowe felde, his ley felde, and his pasture felde al sommer.

  • 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.

  • in La Haye Sainte, the tactical key of the allied position.

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