to hay
2
6.7
- verb
- /heɪ/
:
hacer heno
- They'll be done haying by midafternoon.
Examples
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I keep the fire going to heat the house and hay the horses.
Blog text (18) -
Karmanns started haying last week, and as you pass, think of the snap beans.
Fiction book (2000) -
I would help them hay.
Fiction book (1995) -
Griswold had just hayed his fields.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some work only the men did together, like haying and harvesting the corn.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Weitzels are out haying, the smaller boy atop the wagon with a fork.
Fiction book (2000) -
Mary hayed the cattle and the sheep and had Martha water and haul the hog trough full.
Fiction book (1995) -
Haying crews of the local youth were Vermont's House of Lords—a grand anachronism.
Fiction book (1995) -
Every summer, farmers often hay their fields to prepare for the winter months.
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The workers started to hay the grass early in the morning before the sun got too hot.
Synonyms
1
2.3
To cut back plants to make them grow better
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A common soil bacterium that breaks down dead plants and sometimes makes antibiotics
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb hay comes from the same old English word for 'cut grass' as the noun, and it simply means to cut and dry grass to make animal feed, as when farmers make a haystack.