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hay

[hey]

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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.

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verb (used with object)

to convert (plant material) into hay.

to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.

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Hay is always a great word to know.

So is top gun. Does it mean:

a person who is the best or one of the best in a particular field; the top-ranked person in a group

an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right

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verb (used without object)

to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.

Idioms

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.

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in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night: By ten o'clock he's in the hay.

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make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual: The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.

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make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines. Also, make hay.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hēg; cognate with German Heu, Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi. See hew

Related forms

hay·ey, adjective

un·hayed, adjective

Example Sentences

The pollens that cause hay fever vary from person to person and from region to region.

Here's to high blue skies and making hay while the sun is rolling through the heavens.

Certainly, commentators and café pundits have made plenty of hay over the superpower's shame.

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The pollens that cause hay fever vary from person to person and from region to region.

Here's to high blue skies and making hay while the sun is rolling through the heavens.

Certainly, commentators and café pundits have made plenty of hay over the superpower's shame.

If clay particles are suspended in the water because of poor water chemistry, spread barley straw or hay around the shore.

They also had half the incidence of hay fever and other allergies.

But when the wind shifts south, there might be rich dark smells of loam or hints of hay from newly mown fields.

Store sells everything from rainy-day outerwear to nursery stock to hay for horses.

R-rated reading in after my two young boys hit the hay.

It is commonly, although inaccurately, called hay fever.

En el mundo de la educación superior hay buenas y malas noticias.

What times major league baseball players hit the hay can predict when they'll hit it out of the park, new research shows.

The hay for the ponies is still in the stables in the back.

In the mid-1820s, after a four-year blacksmithing apprenticeship, he began outfitting farmers with hay forks and shovels.

Surround the plant with several inches of loose mulch such as hay or pine needles.

En este continente magnifica de norteamerica, hay una larga tradicion de muchos idiomas diferentes.

Alternate with carbon-rich materials, such as hay or leaves, and wet the entire patch with a garden hose.

Beautiful aromas of peaches, apricots, and newly mown hay.

Hay muchos aspectos que necesitan ser atendidos y también bastantes retos que deber enfrentarse.

In a place full of colors, this saffron yellow really stood out, even against the hay.

Everyone was crowded around one orangutan who was hiding under a bail of hay.

The odd name harkens back centuries to when the area was home to highly flammable hay barns.

Many stretched their hay reserves by mixing horse dung with it to feed to ruminants.

Increased weaving has also been observed prior to elephants being given hay or water and before performing.

If the pile begins to smell or feel soggy, add dry brown ingredients, such as leaves or hay.

These forests are repeatedly cut and used for pasture and hay fields.

It's actually the springtime equivalent of hay fever, but rose fever sounds so much nicer.

Would you rather pick up tar balls from sand or hay with rakes and front.

The farmer makes hay while the sun shines, and stores it in the huts.

Contreras likes hay for its scent, crunch, and rural connections.

When there's more hay in the stack, the needles have to be all the shinier if anyone's going to find them.

Tiny, hard to see pollens more often cause hay fever.

Pero aún así, hay expertos de cuevas que piensan que existen muchas más cuevas que.

The nitrogen fixing stage plus the no-till component in a hay collection year is a good equivalent to leaving a field lay fallow.

It's a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and throwing more hay on the pile doesn't make that problem any easier.

Pollens released by flowering plants and trees cause hay fever and can trigger asthma attacks.

Alana sitting on a hay bale, tail down and listless.

Notas que hay un pequeño agujero en la pared de tu nave.

So the horse may be dead but money is spent on buying hay as they have stock in the hay company.

The zoo has switched to a softer hay with less seeds for the cubs' bedding to avoid another injury.

In people, mast cells release histamines and trigger reactions such as asthma and hay fever.

Learning to use a hay box to keep something perking would offer great savings.

The far banks are mostly pasture and hay fields giving way to national forest.

Con razón hay tantas distintas variedades de vientos.

Pero hay veces que hay pocas o prácticamente ninguna mancha.

No hay un sólo país que sea responsable por retirar la.

En los árboles también hay mamíferos, ranas, serpientes y lagartos.

Hay días si lo poco que hago realmente causa algún impacto positivo.

Pero no hay suficiente comida para las ballenas adultas.

Bueno, hay pequeñas criaturas marinas que se llaman nudibranquios que llevan este concepto a un nivel completamente nuevo.

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World English Dictionary

hay¹ (heɪ)

—n
1.	a. grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
	b. (in combination): a hayfield; a hayloft
2.	slang hit the hay to go to bed
3.	make hay of to throw into confusion
4.	make hay while the sun shines to take full advantage of an opportunity
5.	informal roll in the hay sexual intercourse or heavy petting

—vb
6.	to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
7.	(tr) to feed with hay

[Old English hieg; related to Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi, Old Frisian hē, Old High German houwi; see hew]

hay or hey² (heɪ)

—n
1.	a circular figure in country dancing
2.	a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle

[C16: of uncertain origin]

hey or hey²

—n

[C16: of uncertain origin]

Hay (heɪ)

—n
	Will. 1888--1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)

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Word Origin & History

hay

"grass mown," O.E. heg (Anglian), hieg, hig (W.Saxon) "grass cut or mown for fodder," from P.Gmc. *khaujan (cf. O.N. hey, O.Fris. ha, M.Du. hoy, Ger. Heu, Goth. hawi "hay"), lit. "that which is cut," or "that which can be mowed," from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (cf. O.E. heawan "to cut"). Hay-fever is

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from 1829; earlier it was called summer catarrh. Hayseed is from 1577 in the literal sense of "grass seed shaken out of hay;" in U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1851. Haymaker in the sense of "very strong blow with the fist" is from 1912, probably in imitation of the wide swinging stroke of a scythe. Slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally "to sleep in a barn;" hay in the general fig. sense of "bedding" (e.g. roll in the hay) is from 1903.

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Hay definition

properly so called, was not in use among the Hebrews; straw was used instead. They cut the grass green as it was needed. The word rendered "hay" in Prov. 27:25 means the first shoots of the grass. In Isa. 15:6 the Revised Version has correctly "grass," where the Authorized Version has "hay."

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

hay

see hit the hay; make hay while the sun shines; roll in the hay; that ain't hay.