单词 | haying |
释义 | hayingn. a. The process of making and storing hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking haymaking1584 haying1677 1677 Dade's Prognost. A viij In this Moneth [July] ply your Haying. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 108 The haying being over, fires blazed or smouldered against the stumps in the fields. 1882 Times 30 Nov. 11 The object of ensilage is to maintain the sap as nearly as possible in its original state, without..transformation into grain or straw, or the fermentation of haying. b. attributive, as haying season, haying time. ΚΠ 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 2v/2 Heiing time, fœnifacium. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1542/2 Till haruest or haieng time. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 206 One Sunday in the haying season. 1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 83 In haying-time, thrice a day, a score or more of stout-limbed laborers gathered around my grandfather's board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmashaying haying n. ΚΠ 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 328 What pretty country-dancings and hayings your five million of million of corpuscles make! < as lemmas |
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