haying
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6.3
- noun
:
cosecha de heno
- The community gathered together to help with the haying process, cutting and collecting grass for the animals.
- haying season
- help with the haying
And I intend when the sun is shining, to make hay.
- And I intend when the sun is shining, to make hay.
Examples
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After weeks of hard work, they finally finished haying the fields, readying the hay bales for storage.
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During the summer, many farmers participate in haying to ensure their livestock have enough feed for the winter.
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Once or twice, I came all the way from Washington for haying.
Fiction book (1995) -
The way haying was done in the old days was with horses or by hand.
Blog text (9) -
I didn't belong with them, but they let anybody help at haying who wanted to, and how I used to love the work.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sure enough, when I got to where I could see better, there was some haying going on, and the smell of cut hay and the sight of the dust rising up through the lights brought back a lot of memories from my youth.
Blog text (19) -
I did some cooking a few years back for a local ranch during haying season, and the crew at the time were absolutely thrilled whenever I tossed together meals that didn't include beef.
Blog text (17) -
He especially savored being out in the rolling fields, manning the tractor with its mechanical blades tugged behind, for the haying in late summer.
Fiction book (2001) -
Prospect Park lies just ahead, and she heads for one of the dark paths carved into the green, undulating meadows that resemble alfalfa fields after the first haying.
Fiction book (1996) -
From then on, the cook during haying or calving or lambing at the ranches where my father worked was Bessie instead of Berneta. The couple who would throw themselves and their muscles into sheep deals were Charlie and his mother-in-law instead of his young wife.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
Cutting grass and drying it to make food for farm animals
The time when farmers cut, dry, and store grass for animal food
Compounds
How Active
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6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Haying comes from hay ('dried grass') plus the action ending -ing. It means the work or season of cutting, drying, and collecting grass to make animal feed, so haying is when farmers gather hay to store for their animals.