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ˈhaymaking, vbl. n.
[f. as haymaker.]
a. The process of cutting and drying grass for hay. Also fig. and transf. The action of ‘making hay’ (see hay n.1 3).
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 45 Tooke his seruants and went a heymaking. 1589Cogan Haven Health (1636) 290 How that at York the Monkes of Saint Mary Abbey and the Nunnes of Clement Thorpe met together at heymaking. 1749Berkeley Word to Wise Wks. III. 447 The lightest labour, that of hay-making. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge iv, Where there was merry hay-making in the summer time. 1882Daily News (Ware), A number of men go into a friend's room, find him absent, and testify to their chagrin by disturbing the arrangements of his furniture. But hay-making of this sort is comparatively harmless and inoffensive. 1924W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts (1926) 193 The hay-making of the profiteer after the war. 1971Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 1/2 The unrated Mexican shattered the..boxing champion's hopes of a crack at the world title with a hay-making left hook in the ninth of their..10 round fight.
b. attrib. and Comb., as haymaking season, haymaking time, etc.; haymaking furnace, an apparatus in which the heat of a coke furnace is driven by a fan through new-mown hay in order to dry it; haymaking machine, an apparatus for drying grass for hay.
1752Thyer Note on Milton's L'Allegro 92 The haymaking scene in the lower lands. 1822Shelley Chas. I, ii. 39 To catch Woodcocks in haymaking time. 1826Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1844) 420 Horse Rakes and Haymaking Machines. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 60 There was hay-making-machine-work going on at the farm. |