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hay
1[ hey ]
noun
- grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
- grass mowed or intended for mowing.
- Slang.
- a small sum of money:
Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
- money:
A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
- Slang. marijuana.
verb (used with object)
- to convert (plant material) into hay.
- to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
verb (used without object)
- to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
Hay
2[ hey ]
noun
- John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.
Hay
1/ ɪ /
noun
- HayWill18881949MBritishTHEATRE: comedianFILMS AND TV: actor Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
hay
2/ ɪ /
noun
- grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
- ( in combination )
a hayfield
a hayloft
- hit the hay slang.to go to bed
- make hay ofto throw into confusion
- make hay while the sun shinesto take full advantage of an opportunity
- roll in the hay informal.sexual intercourse or heavy petting
verb
- to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
- tr to feed with hay
hay
3/ ɪ /
noun
- a circular figure in country dancing
- a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
Other 51Թ Forms
- · adjective
- ܲ· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hay1
Origin of hay2
Idioms and Phrases
- a roll in the hay, Slang. sexual intercourse.
- hit the hay, Informal. to go to bed:
It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
- in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night:
By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
- make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual:
The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
- make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: Also make hay.
If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines.
More idioms and phrases containing hay
see hit the hay ; make hay while the sun shines ; roll in the hay ; that ain't hay .Example Sentences
Pollen levels are expected to be high or very high over the next few days which means more bad news for hay fever sufferers after a severe start to the pollen season.
"In the past, a hay field was a multitude of different species – many species of flower and grass all growing together," he said.
If you're a hay fever sufferer, another feature of the warm and sunny weather will be an increase in pollen levels.
“We hadn’t gotten it all the way to bottom yet, so we had hay bales to stop the car in case it didn’t stop,” Gurr says.
One theory is that they arrived with a cargo from the mainland such as hay, but they may have been released intentionally to control rabbit populations.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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