hayn.¹

Brit.

/heɪ/, U.S.

/heɪ/

Forms: Old English híeg, híg, hég, ( heig, hoeg), Middle English hei, Middle English–1600s hey(e, Middle English hai, Middle English heyȝ(e, Middle English–1600s haye, Middle English heiȝ(e, heygh, heey, 1500s–1600s haie, Middle English– hay.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English híeg , híg , hég , = Old Saxon houwi , (Middle Low German hoi , houwe , Middle Dutch hôy , hooi , hoey , Dutch hooi ), Old High German hęwi , houwi (properly, nominative hęwi , genitive houwes , Middle High German höu , hou , houwe , German heu ), Old Norse hey (Swedish, Danish hö ), Gothic hawi (genitive haujis ) < Old Germanic *haujo^m , apparently an adjective used substantively = (that) which can be mowed, < stem of verb *hauw- , Old English heaw- to hew v., cut down, mow.

a. Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing.

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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > hay or straw

hayc825

strawc1000

pease-strawa1325

bean-strawc1386

hard meat1481

quitch?1523

meadow1557

pease-bolt1573

salt hay1648

stover1669

barley-straw1678

marsh hay1728

pea straw1735

chaff1772

long forage1794

bog-hay1799

bhusa1829

peavine hay1846

tibbin1900

slough hay1934

c825 Vesp. Psalter xxxvi[i]. 2 Swe swe heg hreðlice adrugiað.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John vi. 10 Uæs..gærs vel heig micil on ðæm styd.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. vi. 30 Þæt londes hoeg þæt to dæge is and to mærgen vel marne bið in ofne sended.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 178 On . vi. nihtne monan do þonne hig on þin beð.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12197 Þer com hey [c1300 Otho heie] þer com gras.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark vi. 39 He comaundide to hem, that thei schulden make alle men sitte to mete aftir cumpenyes, vpon greene hey.

c1400 Three Kings Cologne 126 Seynt Elene..founde þe same heiȝe þat crist was leyde in yn þe manger.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 450 Ye be not worthe a botelle of heye.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 5 Go thorow the londe vnto all the welles of water & ryuers, yf happlye we maye finde hay.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxiv. 47 They leave it dry many dayes like Hey.

1725 J. Swift Let. to Worrall 12 July in Wks. (1766) XI. 218 I gave over all hopes of my hay..for I reckoned the weather had ruined it.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 183 Amid the fragrant hay.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Owl i. 9 Rarely smells the new-mown hay.

1897 Grant Allen in Strand. Mag. Oct. 404/1 Mice, shrews and lizards..can conceal themselves less easily than they were wont to do in the long hay before the cutting.

b. the hay: colloquial phrase for ‘bed’; esp. in phrases to roll in the hay (sense 3); to hit the hay (hit v. 11c).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > [noun]

restOE

bedc995

laira1000

couch1340

littera1400

libbege1567

pad1703

spond1763

fleabag1811

dab1812

snooze1819

downy1846

kip1879

the hay1903

Uncle Ned1925

rack1939

fart sack1943

sack1943

pit1948

uncle1982

1903 G. Ade People you Know 13 When he had put in a frolicsome Hour or so with the North American Review, he crawled into the Hay at 9.30 p.m.

1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves vi. 160 My experience of women has been that the earlier they leave the hay the more vicious specimens they are apt to be.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 334 Al had the reputation of being great in the hay.

2. Burgundian or Burgundy hay, Lucerne, or Sainfoin: see Burgundy n., Burgundian adj. camel's hay, an Asian grass or rush: see camel n. Compounds 2.

3. Phrases and Proverbs. to carry hay in one's horns: to be ill-tempered or dangerous (Latin fænum habet in cornu, Horace; from an ox apt to gore, whose horns were bound about with hay). to look for a needle in a bottle (bundle) of hay: see needle n. to make hay: (a) literal to mow grass and dry it by spreading it about and exposing it to the sun's heat; (b) figurative to make confusion. to make hay of: to throw into confusion, turn topsy-turvy, upset. to make hay while the sun shines: to lose no time, to seize or profit by opportunities. that ain't hay (U.S. colloquial): that is a lot of money; similarly in other negative contexts. to roll in the hay (colloquial): to make love; hence a roll in the hay, love-making; also concrete, a person making, or willing to make, love.

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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > have the opportunity [verb (intransitive)] > take the opportunity

to make hay while the sun shines1546

to take occasion by the foretopa1577

to stir one's timea1578

to fill one's boots1969

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > large

that ain't hay1943

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of

swivec1560

fall1594

sleep1612

fuck1663

merry bout1780

stroke1785

screw?c1845

charver1846

fuckeea1866

sex act1888

frigc1890

grind1893

mount1896

poke1902

tumble1903

screwing1904

ride1905

roll1910

trick1926

lay1932

jump1934

bang1937

knock1937

shag1937

a roll in the hay1945

boff1956

naughty1959

root1961

shtup1964

home run1967

seeing to1970

legover1975

bonk1978

zatch1980

boink1989

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

engender1483

fuck?a1513

conversec1540

jostlec1540

confederate1557

coeate1576

jumble1582

mate1589

do1594

conjoin1597

grind1598

consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

commix1610

cock1611

nibble1611

wap1611

bolstera1616

incorporate1622

truck1622

subagitate1623

occupya1626

minglec1630

copulate1632

fere1632

rut1637

joust1639

fanfreluche1653

carnalize1703

screw1725

pump1730

correspond1756

shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Whan the sonne shynth make hey.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N8 He's sharpe as thorn; And fretfull, carries Hay in's horne.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 138 She..was resolv'd..to make Hay whilest the Sun shin'd.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 144 No Hay being here made.

1817 M. Edgeworth Rose, Thistle, & Shamrock i. ii, in Comic Dramas 281 Oh! father, how you are making hay of my things!

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 3/2 Sussex made hay of the Gloucestershire bowling.

1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases (at cited word) Between hay and grass, in an unformed state; hobble-de-hoy. F[amiliar]. An Americanism, said of youths between boyhood and manhood.

1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) vii. 44 Job pays eighty a month, cabin, firewood... That ain't hay.

1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iii. 39 He gets something out of it... Maybe just a good roll in the hay.

1948 C. Porter Always True to you in my Fashion (song) p. 4 Mis-ter Thorne once cor-nered corn—and that ain't hay.

1949 M. Miller Sure Thing (1950) 79 I thought here's a kind of pretty girl..and I bet she'd be a good roll in the hay.

1952 P. H. Bonner SPQR (1953) xxvi. 233 I had fancied her as a desirable bit for a roll in the hay.

1958 R. Stout Champagne for One (1959) iv. 42 Fresh figs in March, by air from Chile, are not hay.

1959 G. Fisher Hospitality for Murder xvii. 137 Just over a million bucks per day, to be exact—and that ain't hay.

1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 332 We had a few rolls in the hay... Then for him it was over.

1966 J. Porter Sour Cream xiii. 166 There she was, rolling around in the hay with enough evidence for a dozen divorces.

1968 Times 9 Nov. 23/3 Peterson's marriage is collapsing... He..rolls in the hay with..a plump little thing.

1969 ‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) ii. i. 73 I will come into a cool two and a half million dollars... I will also collect executor's fees which won't be hay.

1973 Times 9 Mar. 18/2 A quiet girl librarian, on vodka, has fantasy dreams of rolling in the hay in frilly drawers.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

(a) Attributive.

hay-bale n.

hay-bond n. dialect

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1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd x. 89 Tending thrashing-machine, and wimbling haybonds.

1953 A. Jobson Househ. & Country Crafts xvi. 163 In the old days the thatcher made his own broaches, as he made his own hay-bonds.

hay-bottle n.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Haye bottell, foenusculum.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. vi. §6 While he was making hay-bottles in the barn.

hay-bundle n.

hay-farm n.

hay-green n.

hay-ground n.

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1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. x. 37 Very good arable grounds, and Hay-ground.

hay-land n.

hay-market n.

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1690 Act 2 Will. & M. Sess. 2. c. 8 §15 Noe person..shall..suffer his..Waggon Cart or Carr to stand..in the place now called the Hay Market neere Pickadilly..loaden with Hay or Straw..after two of the Clocke.

hay-mead n.

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1874 T. Hardy in Cornhill Mag. June 644 (heading) Scene on the Verge of the Hay-mead.

hay-meadow n.

hay-month n.

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1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 14 The merry hay-month gone, now August threw Her golden mantle over every plain.

hay-season n.

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1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. nn.vii It shall perysshe and weder awaye as a floure in the hey season.

hay-stalk n.

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1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 222 As small as an Hay-stalk.

hay-wisp n.

(b) Used in the cultivation, carriage, storage, etc. of hay.

hay-basket n.

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1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 96/1 Your Cart..Harrow, Yoke, Hay-baskets and the like utensils.

hay-boat n.

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18.. J. G. Whittier Countess The heavy hay-boats crawl.

hay-cart n.

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1696–7 Act 8 & 9 Will. III c. 17 Preamb. Hay Cartes and Straw Cartes which are dayly brought into and stand in a Street..called the Hay-Markett.

1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 159 We entered the meadows, where the men were at haycart.

hay-chamber n.

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1705 London Gaz. No. 4187/4 A..House, with..Barns, Stables, Hay-Chambers.

hay-crook n.

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a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 39 As for stackes, they..cutte them eaven downe to the bottome with an hey-spade made for that purpose; but for pykes, they usually pull out the hey with hey-crookes.

hay-hook n.

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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 334/2 The Hay Hook is..for the pulling out of Hay made either in a Rick, Stack, or Mow.

hay-knife n.

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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hay-knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.

hay paddock n. Australian and New Zealand

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1966 Teo Reo IX. 53 Is it not the case that wheat [in N.Z.] is grown in a wheatfield but hay is grown in a hay paddock?

1967 Landfall 21 127 The cock pheasant strutting in a hay paddock.

hay-press n.

hay-shed n.

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1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 516 I used to notice her..about Easter day, proclaiming her arrival..from the peak of the barn or hay-shed.

1920 Glasgow Herald 12 Nov. 8 Farmhouses and haysheds were also fired between Killarney and Tralee.

1936 Brit. Birds XXX. 108 The other Martins' nests were in haysheds or under eaves.

hay-spade n.

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a1642Hay-spade [see hay-crook n.].

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1081/2 The hay-spade has a sharp blade, a handle, and a tread.

hay-wagon n.

hay-wain n.

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a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 40 It is very behoovefull to see that an heywaine bee well raked.

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xv. 287 The hay-wains..pass and repass to and from the hay-field.

hay-yard n.

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1798 Beresford in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 403 Robbing, plundering, and burning houses, hay-yards, corn, &c.

b. Objective genitive (as name of a person, or of a mechanical contrivance).

hay-baler n. U.S.

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1895 M. Graham Stories of Foot-hills 209 The song of the haybalers and the whir of the threshing machine had died out of the valley.

1936 Scrutiny 4 iv. 443 Mark Twain's presentation of Mississippi pilots and Nevada pioneers is comparable with Davis's accounts of timber-line settlers and hay~balers.

hay-binder n.

hay-carter n.

hay-cutter n. (mechanical contrivance or person).

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1653 in Mayflower Descendant XI. 200 One haycutter,..00-01-06.

1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 226 As it chanced there was a hay-cutter, who was at work a short distance from where the scene took place.

1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby xx. 352 Shelby marked the hay-cutters struggling over stubble and wind row.

1873 J. M. Bailey Life in Danbury 21 It did seem as if I never would get out from under that hay-cutter.

1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 769/1 The hay-cutter or hay-knife was the proper tool for cutting into a rick.

hay-dryer n.

hay-farmer n.

hay-loader n.

hay-mower n.

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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 230/1 Hay-mower, fauchevr de foyn.

hay-pitcher n.

hay-presser n.

hay-raker n.

hay-stacker n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hay-stacker, a portable derrick for the suspension of tackle in the use of the horse hay-fork in stacking.

hay-tedder n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hay-tedder, a machine to scatter hay to the sun and air.

hay-tier n.

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1891 Daily News 28 Dec. 3/3 A farm labourer, hay tier, and thatcher.

hay-tosser n.

c. Objective.

hay-binding n.

hay-carting n.

hay-cutting n. originally U.S.

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1665 Rowley Rec. (Mass.) (1894) 163 John Trumble for hay cutting.

1869 J. R. Browne Adventures Apache Country 443 Twenty settlers,..most of whom are engaged in stock-raising and hay-cutting.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 48 Hay-cutting time was approaching.

1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months iv. 165 The eleventh-century Julius A vi has..hay-cutting for July.

hay-pitching n.

hay-tedding n.

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1826–44 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. 420 Thehay-tedding machine, invented about 1800, by Salmon of Woburn.

d. Instrumental.

hay-fed adj.

hay-feed v.

e. Parasynthetic.

hay-coloured adj.

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1887 Daily News 20 July 6/1 Hay colour is the fashionable tint for the straw of rustic hats.

hay-scented adj.

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1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons (1837) 145 Hay-scented fields.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 182 The delicate hay-scented fern (lastræa æmula).

C2. Special combinations.

hay-bag n. slang a woman.

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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

wifeeOE

womaneOE

womanOE

queanOE

brideOE

viragoc1000

to wifeOE

burdc1225

ladyc1225

carlinec1375

stotc1386

marec1387

pigsneyc1390

fellowa1393

piecec1400

femalea1425

goddessa1450

fairc1450

womankindc1450

fellowessa1500

femininea1513

tega1529

sister?1532

minikinc1540

wyec1540

placket1547

pig's eye1553

hen?1555

ware1558

pussy?a1560

jade1560

feme1566

gentlewoman1567

mort1567

pinnacea1568

jug1569

rowen1575

tarleather1575

mumps1576

skirt1578

piga1586

rib?1590

puppy1592

smock1592

maness1594

sloy1596

Madonna1602

moll1604

periwinkle1604

Partlet1607

rib of man1609

womanship?1609

modicum1611

Gypsy1612

petticoata1616

runniona1616

birda1627

lucky1629

she-man1640

her1646

lost rib1647

uptails1671

cow1696

tittup1696

cummer17..

wife1702

she-woman1703

person1704

molly1706

fusby1707

goody1708

riding hood1718

birdie1720

faggot1722

piece of goods1727

woman body1771

she-male1776

biddy1785

bitch1785

covess1789

gin1790

pintail1792

buer1807

femme1814

bibi1816

Judy1819

a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823

wifie1823

craft1829

shickster?1834

heifer1835

mot1837

tit1837

Sitt1838

strap1842

hay-bag1851

bint1855

popsy1855

tart1864

woman's woman1868

to deliver the goods1870

chapess1871

Dona1874

girl1878

ladykind1878

mivvy1881

dudess1883

dudette1883

dudine1883

tid1888

totty1890

tootsy1895

floozy1899

dame1902

jane1906

Tom1906

frail1908

bit of stuff1909

quim1909

babe1911

broad1914

muff1914

manhole1916

number1919

rossie1922

bit1923

man's woman1928

scupper1935

split1935

rye mort1936

totsy1938

leg1939

skinny1941

Richard1950

potato1957

scow1960

wimmin1975

womyn1975

womxn1991

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 217/2 Hay-bag, A woman.

1925 F. G. Bond Flatboating on Yellowstone, 1877 12 I asked a passing corporal the way to the haybag quarters. He was a married man and lived in haybag row.

1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) viii. 159 She is nothing but an old haybag.

1939 E. C. Abbott & H. H. Smith We pointed them North 143 A woman they called Big Ox, who was one of those old haybags that used to follow the buffalo camps.

1967 Spectator 10 Nov. 565/3 The weary certainty that one more stranger has paused to inspect her casually and to depart calling her a haybag.

hay-barrack n. U.S. = barrack n.¹ 1b.

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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 129 This contrivance is called a hay-barrack, in Pennsylvania, where they are equally used for the protection of hay as well as of corn.

hay-bearded adj. having a beard of the colour or texture of hay.

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186–. O. W. Holmes Hunt after Captain in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 29 A grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face.

hay-box n. (a) dialect a hay-loft; (b) a box filled with hay in which food after being brought to boiling-point in a saucepan is placed to finish cooking; also attributive; (c) a box containing hay.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun]

range1423

buccan1611

fire-range1668

stew-stove1727

screw-range1772

stew-hole1780

cooking stove1796

range stove1803

cooking range1805

cookstove1820

kitchener1829

gas range1853

cooker1860

gas cooker1873

Soyer's stove1878

hay-box1885

blazer1889

machine oven1890

paraffin stove1891

primus1893

electric cooker1894

electric range1894

Yukon stove1898

fireless cooker1904

picnic stove1910

pressure stove1914

Tommy cooker1915

rangette1922

Aga1931

barbecue1931

Rayburn1947

sigri1949

jiko1973

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > hay-box

stove1631

hay-box1885

fireless cooker1904

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > hay store

hay-housea1000

loft1530

hayloft1570

hay-barn1577

tallet1586

hay-tallat1697

hay-box1885

1885 B. Brierley Tales & Sketches Lancs. Life iii. 45 There's a hay-boax theere ut I've bin in afore.

1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 119/2 The receptacle with its boiling contents is placed in the hay-box.

1915 Queen 13 Nov. 897/2 Boiled beef should be allowed thirty minutes' boiling for a large joint and three to four hours in the hay-box.

1927 Daily Express 6 Aug. 9/4 To feed the personnel of the force by means of new mobile hay-box cookers.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 39/2 The hay-box fold is most useful for carrying on chicks during the spring and summer months.

hay-cap n. a piece of canvas or tarpaulin put on the top of a haycock or haystack to protect it from rain.

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1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 2/2 The white hay-caps, drawn over small stacks of beans or corn in the fields on account of the rain.

hay-crome n. an old kind of hay-rake (cf. crome n.); see also quot. a1825.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > hay-rake

hay-crome1599

wain-rakea1642

hay-rake1725

hell-rake1794

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 40 They fell downe on their mary-bones & lift vp their hay cromes vnto him.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-crome. No rustic implement is now literally called by this name, but a metaphorical use of the word is very common. The characters scrawled by an awkward penman are likened to ‘hay-cromes and pitchforks’.

† hay-dust n. Obsolete hayseed.

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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 172 The seede of grasse, commonly called Hay-dust, is prescribed against the byting of dragons.

hay-goaf n. (also †hay-golph, †hay-gulfe) a hay-mow.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick

moweOE

rickeOE

pease-ricka1325

stackc1330

tassc1330

rucka1382

hayrick14..

haystack14..

sedge reekc1440

hay-mow1483

hay-goaf1570

rack1574

hovel1591

scroo1604

mow-stack1611

sow1659

corn-rick1669

bean-rick1677

barley-mow1714

pea rick1766

rickle1768

bike1771

stacklet1796

bean-stack1828

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2247/2 The poore man and woman were compelled to steppe into an hay golph to hide themselues from their cruelty.

1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. III. xv. 254 They two being taken togeather in a hay gulfe..were carryed to the assises at Berry.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Hay-goaf, hay mow.

hay-grass n. grass preserved for hay.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture > for hay

hay-grass1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 286 Among the kinds of hey-grasse.

1883 Sunday Mag. July 446/1 What a leap from the grass of an English meadow..to the hay-grass in Bengal!

hay-harvest n. the season when hay is made, hay-making time.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking > hay season

hay-time1530

hay-harvest1552

haysela1825

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hay harvest, foenisecium.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 155 His master..had begun the hay-harvest that very morning.

hay-home supper n. a meal to celebrate the successful bringing home of the hay; cf. harvest home n.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > harvest-home feast

kirn1777

kirn-supper1777

maiden feast1797

churn-supper1801

kirn-feast1846

hay-home supper1860

churn-getting1866

1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office ii. 34 Mrs. King would not let him go to the hay-home supper in the barn.

1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green iv. 69 That was the hay-home supper, a survival, though perhaps not more ancient than a couple of hundred years or so.

hay-hut n. [translating German heuhütte] a wooden hut covering a hay-stack on the mountainside.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > part of

staddle?a1500

boll-roakinga1642

hood1658

stall1688

well1710

staddle1743

hood-sheaf1799

tipple1799

hooding-sheaf1802

hooder1807

hackle1842

hay-hut1903

1903 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 3/7 One sees the bright green mountain where the hay-huts hang like birds' nests on the steep slope.

1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 2 Sept. (1932) 56 We take rucksacks.., cook our meals by some stream—and twice we have slept in hay-huts.

c1912 D. H. Lawrence Love among Haystacks (1930) 63 There must be a hay hut somewhere near. We can't sleep here.

hay-man n. a man who sells hay, a hay-salesman.

ΚΠ

1800 G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 285 The haymen..who sell the Kentish wheat.

hay-pack n. a large bundle of hay packed in a sheet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw

feald?14..

bottlec1405

bunch?a1505

straw wisp?a1513

stook1571

wad1573

botillage1576

windling1645

pottle1730

bolting1784

strike1817

windle1825

wap1828

hay-pack1841

wake1847

plack1871

tibbin1900

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 212/1 Already some hay-packs were thrown in.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/1 We came in sight of some men, with hay-packs ready for the downward leap.

hay-plant n. an umbelliferous plant of the Tibetan territories of southwestern China, Prangos pabularia.

ΚΠ

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 490/1 The Prangos Hay-plant is herbaceous and perennial..The crop consists of the leaves, which..have a highly fragrant smell, extremely similar to that of very good new clover hay.

hay-press n. U.S. a press for baling hay.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > baler

hay-press1829

baler1888

trusser1889

pickup baler1939

1829 20th Congress 2 Sess. State P. No. 59. 3 [Improvement] in the hay press [patented Jan.] 26 [1828 by] Moses B. Bliss.

1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xli. 221 A large building resembling a northern hay-press.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xxvi. 179 To see his new red barn with its large ‘Mormon’ hay-press..consumed, was too much for the Hawkins' heart to stand.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 151/3 Our £235,000 Belt Power Hay Press.

hayride n. U.S. a pleasure ride in a hay-wagon.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > ride in a wheeled vehicle > ride in types of horse-drawn vehicle

buggy ride1849

straw ride1856

hayride1896

1856 Spirit of Times 8 Nov. 154/2 The invitations he had at first received to join pic-nics, boating excursions on the river, and haywagon rides, after a while became intermittent.]

1896 Advance (Chicago) 19 Mar. 414/2 Everybody being as comfortable as hay-ride etiquette permitted, the word was given, and away they went.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 50 The remembrance of poor Susy's lost hay-ride still brings me a pang.

1915 J. Webster Dear Enemy (1916) 274 We have had hay-rides and skating-parties and candy-pulls.

1966 Punch 21 Dec. 921/2 Hay-rides, an American indulgence by no means confined to Texas, are laid on by riding academies and picnic area operators.

1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 64/1 She's..become a steady patron of..hayrides..and Ladies' Nights.

hay-rig n. = hay-rigging n.

ΚΠ

1896 Advance (Chicago) 19 Mar. 414/1 Two great farm wagons, provided with those wide projecting frames, technically known as hay-rigs.

hay-rigging n. a framework projecting from the sides of a wagon so as to increase its carrying capacity, a shelving (U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > to increase capacity

cart-staff1297

thripple14..

rathe1459

summer1510

cart-ladder?1523

rail1530

rave1530

shelboard1569

wain-flakes1570

load-pina1642

shelvingsa1642

cop1679

float1686

lade1686

outrigger1794

shelvement1808

sideboard1814

heck1825

hay-rigging1855

floating rail1892

1855 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod in Putnam's Monthly June 633/1 We met several hay-riggings and farm wagons..each loaded with three large, rough deal boxes.

hay-rope n. a rope twisted of hay, a hay-band.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of > made of hay or straw

bandc1325

hay-rope?1523

vine1577

thumb-rope1601

thumb-band1639

suggan1722

simea1824

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx^v Bynde her heed with a hey rope..to the syde of the penne.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1661) ii. 123 If your horse be sprained..then bind him round in a hay rope.

hay-scales n. U.S. a public weighing-machine for weighing loads of hay, etc.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance > scales for weighing specific things

gold-weightsa1474

hay-scales1773

1773 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1893) XXIII. 204 The Ground on which the Hay Scales stands.

1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. xvii. 327 They might as well say that the natives can tell the time by consulting..a pair of hay-scales.

1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says v. 34 The writer,..wearied of..the same unvarying prospect of ox-teams, hay-scales,..took the roving fever.

1893 Citizen Guide to Brooklyn & Long Island 8 The old hay-scales stood there, and on its roof was the first fire~bell owned by Brooklyn.

hay-tallat n. a hayloft n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > hay store

hay-housea1000

loft1530

hayloft1570

hay-barn1577

tallet1586

hay-tallat1697

hay-box1885

1697 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 4) v. iii. 26 To tuck it out of the Rick by little and little, as you have occasion to use it, makes it spend much better than it would otherwise do out of the Hay-Tallet.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xix. 213 Being forced to dress in the hay-tallat.

hay-tea n. a decoction of hay used for cattle.

ΚΠ

1826 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1844) 905 To make hay-tea.

hay-time n. the season at which hay is made and carried.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking > hay season

hay-time1530

hay-harvest1552

haysela1825

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 230/1 Heytyme, temps de fener.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 142 The demand for country labour is greater at hay-time .

hay-worm n. a worm or caterpillar bred in hay.

ΚΠ

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) It [hay] is a proper nidus of itself, sometimes, for a much larger species of insect called the hay-worm, whose origin and changes have not, as yet, been properly observed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hayn.²

Forms: Old English hege, ( heige, heage), Middle English heie, Middle English–1600s haie, hey, Middle English heyȝ, heȝe, 1500s–1600s heye, Middle English– haye, Middle English– hay.

Etymology: Old English hęge ( < *hagi-z ) a derivative of the same root as haga haw n.¹ and hedge n. In its Middle English form the word became more or less identified with French haie < Old Low German haga (compare Middle Dutch hāge) hedge, a word of cognate origin.

Now archaic or dialect.

1. A hedge, a fence. (In some 17th cent. writers distinguished as a ‘dead hedge’.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence

hayc725

gartha1340

tiningc1440

mound?a1500

frith1511

dike1567

sepiment1656

c725 Corpus Gloss. 606 Crates, hegas.

845 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 437 Et jacit be norðan hege.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 448 Wiðutan minum hegum.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 817 The vox kan crope bi the heie.

a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxxviii[i]. 41 [40] Þou for-dide his haies.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiv Both on hayes and in freshe greues.

1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 13 §7 The Heyes, Fences, Dikes or Hedges next adjoining..any high or common fairing Way.

1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xx. f. 152^v The wild beasts..must haue their free passage..without any forestalling or foresetting of them..either with dogges, gunne, crosbow, longbow, dead hey, quick hey, or any maner of engin or let whatsoeuer.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 239 A hedge implieth quickset and trees: but a hay a dead fence, that may be made one yeare, and pulled downe another.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 17 The game was usually enclosed with a haye or fence-work of netting.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay, a hedge; more particularly a clipped quickset hedge.

1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom ii. 235 The golden bilhook, wherewithal He wont to cut his way, when tangled in The matted hayes.

1880 J. E. Harting Brit. Animals Extinct ii. 224 Great tracts of forest were..inclosed within a pale, haye, or wall.

2. An enclosed space; an enclosure; a park.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > forest or park

park1222

hainc1275

forest1297

firth?a1400

nether vert1598

haya1640

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > an enclosed piece of ground

hawc825

towneOE

purprisea1275

hainc1275

wick1301

cerne1393

firmancea1522

haining1535

haya1640

pena1640

park1658

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §107 108 (Exeter) Another [religious house] was for..Nuns, which is now the kalender~hay.

1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 57 This Hay of Hereford was a great Woodland ground near the City, and heretofore reputed a forest.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 38 The Plains or Hays below in great part being covered only with..Ling.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. ii. iii. 100 Five hays, or royal parks, each fenced in, and furnished with its lodge.

1881 Daily News 19 Nov. 2/1 The sale of 1,270 acres to one of the Dukes of Kingston out of the hays of Bilhagh and White Lodge..[in] Sherwood Forest.

†3. Military. An extended line of men. Obsolete. [Compare French haie.]

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > line

rengec1330

ray1481

ranka1533

hay1684

line1801

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 55 Then draw up in Hay to the Rear.

1753 Execution Dr. A. Cameron (Tower Rec.) The Yeoman Warders were formed into a Hay.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hay, a straight rank of men drawn up exactly in a line.

Compounds

† hay-brier n. (also heybrere) Obsolete hedge-brier.

ΚΠ

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 568/25 Bodarius, heybrere.

haymaids n. ground-ivy.

ΚΠ

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum v. xciii. 677 Wee in English [call it]..Gill creepe by the ground, Catsfoote, Haymaides, and Alehoofe.

† hay-saule n. Obsolete a hedge-stake.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cliii. 1049 Svdes..is an heysaule outher a stake yscharped at eyþer ende.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

† hayn.³

Forms: Middle English–1600s haie, Middle English–1700s haye, 1500s–1600s hey(e, Middle English– hay.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman haie: origin uncertain. A conjecture is that it may have been an extension of hay n.² (compare sense 1 there quot. 1598), or of the equivalent French haie; but evidence is wanting.

Obsolete.

A net used for catching wild animals, esp. rabbits, being stretched in front of their holes, or round their haunts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for rabbits or hares

purse net1388

hay1389

hay-netc1440

gate-net1605

flan1801

field net1814

purse1893

1389 Act 13 Rich. II Stat. 1. c. 13 §1 Nene use furettes haies rees hare pipes ne cordes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 220/2 Haye, net to catche conys wythe [1499 Pynson hay net, de Worde hanet].

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiv. sig. Xv^v He which entendeth to take the fierse & mighty lyon, pytcheth his haye or nette in the woode amonge great trees and thornes.

1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 139 A Rabbet, who having escap'd a Weasel, fell into the Hayes.

1710 Act 9 Anne c. 27 §5 The pernicious Practice of driving and taking them with Hayes, Tunnells and other Nets, in the Fens, Lakes, and broad Waters.

1774 Ms. Redsham Manor, Suff. Game~keeper to destroy hays, nets, and snares.

1821 Sporting Mag. 9 11 Hays, nets, low-bells, hare-pipes.

figurative.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iv. 394/2 Harold..tooke counsell how hee might traine into his Haye the sonnes of Queene Emma.a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant v. i, in Comedies (1651) sig. e3^v How'l you then subdue them? Phil. By Policy, set Hays, and Traps, and Springs, And Pitfals for 'em.

Compounds

hay-net n. in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for rabbits or hares

purse net1388

hay1389

hay-netc1440

gate-net1605

flan1801

field net1814

purse1893

c1440Hay net [see main sense].

1813 Sporting Mag. 42 214 In his pocket were found several bag nets and a hay net.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-net, a hedge-net. A long low net, to prevent hares or rabbits from escaping to covert, in or through hedges.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hayheyn.⁴

Forms: 1500s heye, 1500s–1700s haye, 1600s haie, 1500s– hay, 1600s– hey.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin: haye d'allemaigne is used in 15th cent. French by Marot.

a. A country dance having a winding or serpentine movement, or being of the nature of a reel.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances

haya1529

trenchmore1552

hay-de-guy1579

country bumpkin1649

sedany1651

Sir Roger de Coverley1685

Frenchmore1696

mermaid1701

Moll Peatley1711

hemp-dressers1756

cottager's dance1851

pop goes the weasel1853

tempête1873

barn dance1892

line dance1961

a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 131 I cannot let the the knaue to play To dauns the hay or rune the ray.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 Thai dancit al cristyn mennis dance, the northt of scotland..ihonne ermistrangis dance, the alman haye, the bace of voragon, [etc.].

1596 J. Davies Orchestra lxiv. sig. B5^v He taught them rounds and winding Heyes to tread.

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie v. sig. F1^v They doe most nimbly bestirre themselves sporting and playing in and out as if they were dancing the hay.

1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. iv. 80/2 Scourge him As Boys do Tops; or make him dance The Irish Hey, over a Field of Thistles Naked.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvii. 237 One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing..is what they call ‘the hay’: the figure of it, altogether, is a cypher of S's, or a number of serpentine lines interlacing or intervolving each other.

?1810 M. Edgeworth M. Lewis (1849) 151 He..danced the Hays round two elbow chairs.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iv. 69 The hymns they sang might have been a hey or a jig in a country dance.

b. transferred and figurative. to dance the hay or hays: to perform winding or sinuous movements (around or among numerous objects); to go through varied evolutions like those of a dance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course

to turn and winda1398

wreathea1500

twine1553

indent1567

virea1586

crank1594

to dance the hay or hays1600

maze1605

serpent1606

to indent the way1612

cringlea1629

indenture1631

circumgyre1634

twist1635

glomerate1638

winda1682

serpentine1767

meander1785

zigzag1787

zag1793

to worm one's way1822

vandyke1828

crankle1835

thread the needle1843

switchback1903

rattlesnake1961

zig1969

1600 C. Leigh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 200 Through variety of iudgements, and euill marinership we were faine to dance the hay foure dayes together.

1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois i. 8 The King and subiect, Lord and euerie slaue Dance a continuall Haie.

1718 Entertainer No. 28. ⁋12 To make him thus dance the Hay of Scepticism and Latitude.

1813 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 26 614 Lord Ellenborough considered the Bill as a most arbitrary measure; it tended to make property dance the hays, and to alter every description of tenure.

1887 R. Browning D. Bartoli in Parleyings xv To be duchess was to dance the hays Up, down, across the heaven amid its host.

c. Combination hay-fashion adv.

ΚΠ

1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 196 He made his Horse Dance in & out of every other Tree, Hay Fashion.

†2. hay-de-guy, hay-guise n. Forms: 1500s hay the gy, haydeguies, -guyes, hey-day guise, heidegyes, 1500s–1600s heydeguies, 1600s haydegues, -digyes, hey-de-gay, -gey, -guize, hydegy, hy-day-gies, nonstandard hadegynes. [lit. Hay of Guy or ? Guise.] A particular kind of hay or dance, in vogue in 16th and early 17th cent. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances

haya1529

trenchmore1552

hay-de-guy1579

country bumpkin1649

sedany1651

Sir Roger de Coverley1685

Frenchmore1696

mermaid1701

Moll Peatley1711

hemp-dressers1756

cottager's dance1851

pop goes the weasel1853

tempête1873

barn dance1892

line dance1961

a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues 13 Enforce me Nothing to write but hay the gy of thre.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 27 With Heydeguyes, and trimly trodden traces.

c1580 Robin Goodfellow 101 in Percy Rel. (1765) III. 205 By wells and rills in meadowes greene, We nightly dance our hey-day guise.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. Argt. 75 Whilst the nimble Cambrian Rills Daunce hy-day-gies amongst the Hills.

1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G4^v With an heydeguies, Pipt by Tom-piper, or a Lorrel-lad.

1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. ix. sig. Gi Bee bonny, buxome, iolly. Trip haydegues beliue.

1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 49 Not in a hey-de-gay of scurvey Gallantry.

1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 217 Hadegynes, a Country dance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

hayn.⁶

Etymology: translating French foin.

The choke of an artichoke.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > stalk vegetables > [noun] > artichokes > parts of

chard1653

hay1877

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 43 Some French cooks, before sending the artichoke to table, are careful to remove the choke, or as they call it, the hay.

1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 558 Artichoke Béarnaise style, blanched, hay removed, braised in white wine, [etc.].

1960 News Chron. 6 July 6/6 In the middle of the vegetable is the hay or choke (what would be the flower itself if it were not an artichoke but a thistle).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

Hayn.⁷

Brit.

/heɪ/, U.S.

/heɪ/

Etymology: < the name of William Howard Hay (1866–1940), U.S. physician.

Used attributively to designate various methods of medical and dietary treatment advocated by William Hay. Hay diet n. a diet based on the belief that proteins and carbohydrates should not be eaten at the same meal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > specific diets

Lessian diet1646

milk-diet1671

flesh-diet1731

meagre1770

bean-diet1820

mono-diet1920

Hay diet1925

Mediterranean diet1928

Atkins1972

slim1977

F Plan Diet1982

1925 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 June 1938/2 Hay rest cure.

1933 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 25 Feb. 595/2 Can you give me any information on Dr. Hay and the Hay diet which has become so popular in certain sections of our country? I believe that it is based on the idea of not eating meats and starches in the same meal!

1936 D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel ii. 142 I wish you'd let me put you on a Hay diet. All proteins at once, all starches.

1937 W. H. Hay Human Ailments xix. 136 If you wish to end colds for all time, then merely follow the directions for building health that you will find stressed continually by the Hay System.

1937 M. Osborne (title) Meatless dishes for Hay dieters.

1969 Sinclair & Hollingsworth Hutchison's Food & Princ. Nutrition (ed. 12) viii. 193 Gastric digestion of protein is not indispensible and its importance can easily be over~estimated, as in the fallacious rationale underlying the Hay diet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hayv.¹

Etymology: < hay n.¹

1. transitive. To furnish or supply with hay; to put (land) under hay.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with grass or hay

turfc1430

sod1652

hay1708

meadow1768

to throw down1778

verd1778

grass1795

returf1824

stock1828

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed horses

oat1732

to rack up1743

hay1858

1708 London Gaz. No. 4409/4 An Estate to be sold..well Hay'd and Wooded.

1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xiv. 143 The postillion stopped..to hay his horses.

1861 Times 27 Sept. Part of the land is hayed, the hay put in large cocks of about four tons each.

2. intransitive. To make hay. (Chiefly in gerund or present participle)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > make hay

hay1553

1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 2^v/2 Heiing time, fœnifacium.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1542/2 Till haruest or haieng time.

1677 Dade's Prognost. A viij In this Moneth [July] ply your Haying.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hay, to dry or cure grass for preservation.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 July 1/2 A great many of the Irish voters in towns go regularly haying, harvesting, hopping.

3. transitive. To make into hay.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > dry crops in field > make hay

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1884 W. Barrows Oregon 332 The bunch grass..is hayed by the sun uncut.

1893 Times 11 July 4/1 In making hop bines into hay the bines must be got together directly they are ‘hayed’.

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† hayv.²

Etymology: Old English hęgian , < haga haw n.¹, hęge hay n.²

Obsolete.

transitive. To enclose or fence in by a hedge; to hedge.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with a fence or hedge

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish or surround with fence or hedge

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a1050 Liber Scintillarum xvi. (1889) 80 Hega [sepi] earan þine mid þornum.

c1425 MS. Bibl. Reg. 12 B 1 lf. 78 Sepio..to heghyn.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing, balking..haying, hedging or shawing.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Compound Contiguall Boundage is more significant, as side-haying, head-shawing, etc.

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† hayv.³

Etymology: < hay n.³

Obsolete.

intransitive. To set ‘hays’ or nets for rabbits, etc.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > hunt by trapping

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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 221/1 Hayyn for conys, cassio.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hayen for conyes, cassio.

1572 Lease Manor Hawsted, Suffolk in Promptorium Parvulorum 221 (note) Hawking, haying [= rabbit-netting].

1613 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcomb i. iii We shall scout here, as though we went a-haying.

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† hayv.⁴

Etymology: < hay n.⁴

Obsolete.

intransitive. To dance the hay.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > take part in country-dance or dancing [verb (intransitive)] > specific country-dance

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1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 269 We Danced round the Room, Hayed in and out with the Chairs, and all that.

Derivatives

haying n.

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1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 328 What pretty country-dancings and hayings your five million of million of corpuscles make!

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† hayint.n.⁵

Etymology: < Italian hai pronunciation /ai/ thou hast (it). Compare Latin habet, exclaimed when a gladiator was wounded.

Obsolete.

A. int.

An exclamation of hitting on opponent.

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1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I^v Oh it must be done like lightning, hay ?

B. n.⁵

A home-thrust.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 24 Ah the immortall Passado, the Punto reuerso, the Hay .

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单词	hay
释义	hayn.¹ Brit. /heɪ/, U.S. /heɪ/ Forms: Old English híeg, híg, hég, ( heig, hoeg), Middle English hei, Middle English–1600s hey(e, Middle English hai, Middle English heyȝ(e, Middle English–1600s haye, Middle English heiȝ(e, heygh, heey, 1500s–1600s haie, Middle English– hay. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English híeg , híg , hég , = Old Saxon houwi , (Middle Low German hoi , houwe , Middle Dutch hôy , hooi , hoey , Dutch hooi ), Old High German hęwi , houwi (properly, nominative hęwi , genitive houwes , Middle High German höu , hou , houwe , German heu ), Old Norse hey (Swedish, Danish hö ), Gothic hawi (genitive haujis ) < Old Germanic haujo^m , apparently an adjective used substantively = (that) which can be mowed, < stem of verb hauw- , Old English heaw- to hew v., cut down, mow. 1. a. Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > hay or straw hayc825 strawc1000 pease-strawa1325 bean-strawc1386 hard meat1481 quitch?1523 meadow1557 pease-bolt1573 salt hay1648 stover1669 barley-straw1678 marsh hay1728 pea straw1735 chaff1772 long forage1794 bog-hay1799 bhusa1829 peavine hay1846 tibbin1900 slough hay1934 c825 Vesp. Psalter xxxvi[i]. 2 Swe swe heg hreðlice adrugiað. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John vi. 10 Uæs..gærs vel heig micil on ðæm styd. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. vi. 30 Þæt londes hoeg þæt to dæge is and to mærgen vel marne bið in ofne sended. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 178 On . vi. nihtne monan do þonne hig on þin beð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12197 Þer com hey [c1300 Otho heie] þer com gras. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark vi. 39 He comaundide to hem, that thei schulden make alle men sitte to mete aftir cumpenyes, vpon greene hey. c1400 Three Kings Cologne 126 Seynt Elene..founde þe same heiȝe þat crist was leyde in yn þe manger. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 450 Ye be not worthe a botelle of heye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 5 Go thorow the londe vnto all the welles of water & ryuers, yf happlye we maye finde hay. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxiv. 47 They leave it dry many dayes like Hey. 1725 J. Swift Let. to Worrall 12 July in Wks. (1766) XI. 218 I gave over all hopes of my hay..for I reckoned the weather had ruined it. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 183 Amid the fragrant hay. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Owl i. 9 Rarely smells the new-mown hay. 1897 Grant Allen in Strand. Mag. Oct. 404/1 Mice, shrews and lizards..can conceal themselves less easily than they were wont to do in the long hay before the cutting. b. the hay: colloquial phrase for ‘bed’; esp. in phrases to roll in the hay (sense 3); to hit the hay (hit v. 11c). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > [noun] restOE bedc995 laira1000 couch1340 littera1400 libbege1567 pad1703 spond1763 fleabag1811 dab1812 snooze1819 downy1846 kip1879 the hay1903 Uncle Ned1925 rack1939 fart sack1943 sack1943 pit1948 uncle1982 1903 G. Ade People you Know 13 When he had put in a frolicsome Hour or so with the North American Review, he crawled into the Hay at 9.30 p.m. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves vi. 160 My experience of women has been that the earlier they leave the hay the more vicious specimens they are apt to be. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 334 Al had the reputation of being great in the hay. 2. Burgundian or Burgundy hay, Lucerne, or Sainfoin: see Burgundy n., Burgundian adj. camel's hay, an Asian grass or rush: see camel n. Compounds 2. 3. Phrases and Proverbs. to carry hay in one's horns: to be ill-tempered or dangerous (Latin fænum habet in cornu, Horace; from an ox apt to gore, whose horns were bound about with hay). to look for a needle in a bottle (bundle) of hay: see needle n. to make hay: (a) literal to mow grass and dry it by spreading it about and exposing it to the sun's heat; (b) figurative to make confusion. to make hay of: to throw into confusion, turn topsy-turvy, upset. to make hay while the sun shines: to lose no time, to seize or profit by opportunities. that ain't hay (U.S. colloquial): that is a lot of money; similarly in other negative contexts. to roll in the hay (colloquial): to make love; hence a roll in the hay, love-making; also concrete, a person making, or willing to make, love. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > have the opportunity [verb (intransitive)] > take the opportunity to make hay while the sun shines1546 to take occasion by the foretopa1577 to stir one's timea1578 to fill one's boots1969 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > large that ain't hay1943 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of swivec1560 fall1594 sleep1612 fuck1663 merry bout1780 stroke1785 screw?c1845 charver1846 fuckeea1866 sex act1888 frigc1890 grind1893 mount1896 poke1902 tumble1903 screwing1904 ride1905 roll1910 trick1926 lay1932 jump1934 bang1937 knock1937 shag1937 a roll in the hay1945 boff1956 naughty1959 root1961 shtup1964 home run1967 seeing to1970 legover1975 bonk1978 zatch1980 boink1989 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Whan the sonne shynth make hey. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N8 He's sharpe as thorn; And fretfull, carries Hay in's horne. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 138 She..was resolv'd..to make Hay whilest the Sun shin'd. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 144 No Hay being here made. 1817 M. Edgeworth Rose, Thistle, & Shamrock i. ii, in Comic Dramas 281 Oh! father, how you are making hay of my things! 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 3/2 Sussex made hay of the Gloucestershire bowling. 1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases (at cited word) Between hay and grass, in an unformed state; hobble-de-hoy. F[amiliar]. An Americanism, said of youths between boyhood and manhood. 1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) vii. 44 Job pays eighty a month, cabin, firewood... That ain't hay. 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iii. 39 He gets something out of it... Maybe just a good roll in the hay. 1948 C. Porter Always True to you in my Fashion (song) p. 4 Mis-ter Thorne once cor-nered corn—and that ain't hay. 1949 M. Miller Sure Thing (1950) 79 I thought here's a kind of pretty girl..and I bet she'd be a good roll in the hay. 1952 P. H. Bonner SPQR (1953) xxvi. 233 I had fancied her as a desirable bit for a roll in the hay. 1958 R. Stout Champagne for One (1959) iv. 42 Fresh figs in March, by air from Chile, are not hay. 1959 G. Fisher Hospitality for Murder xvii. 137 Just over a million bucks per day, to be exact—and that ain't hay. 1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 332 We had a few rolls in the hay... Then for him it was over. 1966 J. Porter Sour Cream xiii. 166 There she was, rolling around in the hay with enough evidence for a dozen divorces. 1968 Times 9 Nov. 23/3 Peterson's marriage is collapsing... He..rolls in the hay with..a plump little thing. 1969 ‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) ii. i. 73 I will come into a cool two and a half million dollars... I will also collect executor's fees which won't be hay. 1973 Times 9 Mar. 18/2 A quiet girl librarian, on vodka, has fantasy dreams of rolling in the hay in frilly drawers. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (a) Attributive. hay-bale n. hay-bond n. dialect ΚΠ 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd x. 89 Tending thrashing-machine, and wimbling haybonds. 1953 A. Jobson Househ. & Country Crafts xvi. 163 In the old days the thatcher made his own broaches, as he made his own hay-bonds. hay-bottle n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Haye bottell, foenusculum. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. vi. §6 While he was making hay-bottles in the barn. hay-bundle n. hay-farm n. hay-green n. hay-ground n. ΚΠ 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. x. 37 Very good arable grounds, and Hay-ground. hay-land n. hay-market n. ΚΠ 1690 Act 2 Will. & M. Sess. 2. c. 8 §15 Noe person..shall..suffer his..Waggon Cart or Carr to stand..in the place now called the Hay Market neere Pickadilly..loaden with Hay or Straw..after two of the Clocke. hay-mead n. ΚΠ 1874 T. Hardy in Cornhill Mag. June 644 (heading) Scene on the Verge of the Hay-mead. hay-meadow n. hay-month n. ΚΠ 1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 14 The merry hay-month gone, now August threw Her golden mantle over every plain. hay-season n. ΚΠ 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. nn.vii It shall perysshe and weder awaye as a floure in the hey season. hay-stalk n. ΚΠ 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 222 As small as an Hay-stalk. hay-wisp n. (b) Used in the cultivation, carriage, storage, etc. of hay. hay-basket n. ΚΠ 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 96/1 Your Cart..Harrow, Yoke, Hay-baskets and the like utensils. hay-boat n. ΚΠ 18.. J. G. Whittier Countess The heavy hay-boats crawl. hay-cart n. ΚΠ 1696–7 Act 8 & 9 Will. III c. 17 Preamb. Hay Cartes and Straw Cartes which are dayly brought into and stand in a Street..called the Hay-Markett. 1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 159 We entered the meadows, where the men were at haycart. hay-chamber n. ΚΠ 1705 London Gaz. No. 4187/4 A..House, with..Barns, Stables, Hay-Chambers. hay-crook n. ΚΠ a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 39 As for stackes, they..cutte them eaven downe to the bottome with an hey-spade made for that purpose; but for pykes, they usually pull out the hey with hey-crookes. hay-hook n. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 334/2 The Hay Hook is..for the pulling out of Hay made either in a Rick, Stack, or Mow. hay-knife n. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hay-knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. hay paddock n. Australian and New Zealand ΚΠ 1966 Teo Reo IX. 53 Is it not the case that wheat [in N.Z.] is grown in a wheatfield but hay is grown in a hay paddock? 1967 Landfall 21 127 The cock pheasant strutting in a hay paddock. hay-press n. hay-shed n. ΚΠ 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 516 I used to notice her..about Easter day, proclaiming her arrival..from the peak of the barn or hay-shed. 1920 Glasgow Herald 12 Nov. 8 Farmhouses and haysheds were also fired between Killarney and Tralee. 1936 Brit. Birds XXX. 108 The other Martins' nests were in haysheds or under eaves. hay-spade n. ΚΠ a1642Hay-spade [see hay-crook n.]. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1081/2 The hay-spade has a sharp blade, a handle, and a tread. hay-wagon n. hay-wain n. ΚΠ a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 40 It is very behoovefull to see that an heywaine bee well raked. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xv. 287 The hay-wains..pass and repass to and from the hay-field. hay-yard n. ΚΠ 1798 Beresford in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 403 Robbing, plundering, and burning houses, hay-yards, corn, &c. b. Objective genitive (as name of a person, or of a mechanical contrivance). hay-baler n. U.S. ΚΠ 1895 M. Graham Stories of Foot-hills 209 The song of the haybalers and the whir of the threshing machine had died out of the valley. 1936 Scrutiny 4 iv. 443 Mark Twain's presentation of Mississippi pilots and Nevada pioneers is comparable with Davis's accounts of timber-line settlers and hay~balers. hay-binder n. hay-carter n. hay-cutter n. (mechanical contrivance or person). ΚΠ 1653 in Mayflower Descendant XI. 200 One haycutter,..00-01-06. 1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 226 As it chanced there was a hay-cutter, who was at work a short distance from where the scene took place. 1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby xx. 352 Shelby marked the hay-cutters struggling over stubble and wind row. 1873 J. M. Bailey Life in Danbury 21 It did seem as if I never would get out from under that hay-cutter. 1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 769/1 The hay-cutter or hay-knife was the proper tool for cutting into a rick. hay-dryer n. hay-farmer n. hay-loader n. hay-mower n. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 230/1 Hay-mower, fauchevr de foyn. hay-pitcher n. hay-presser n. hay-raker n. hay-stacker n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hay-stacker, a portable derrick for the suspension of tackle in the use of the horse hay-fork in stacking. hay-tedder n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hay-tedder, a machine to scatter hay to the sun and air. hay-tier n. ΚΠ 1891 Daily News 28 Dec. 3/3 A farm labourer, hay tier, and thatcher. hay-tosser n. c. Objective. hay-binding n. hay-carting n. hay-cutting n. originally U.S. ΚΠ 1665 Rowley Rec. (Mass.) (1894) 163 John Trumble for hay cutting. 1869 J. R. Browne Adventures Apache Country 443 Twenty settlers,..most of whom are engaged in stock-raising and hay-cutting. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 48 Hay-cutting time was approaching. 1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months iv. 165 The eleventh-century Julius A vi has..hay-cutting for July. hay-pitching n. hay-tedding n. ΚΠ 1826–44 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. 420 Thehay-tedding machine, invented about 1800, by Salmon of Woburn. d. Instrumental. hay-fed adj. hay-feed v. e. Parasynthetic. hay-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1887 Daily News 20 July 6/1 Hay colour is the fashionable tint for the straw of rustic hats. hay-scented adj. ΚΠ 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons (1837) 145 Hay-scented fields. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 182 The delicate hay-scented fern (lastræa æmula). C2. Special combinations. hay-bag n. slang a woman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 217/2 Hay-bag, A woman. 1925 F. G. Bond Flatboating on Yellowstone, 1877 12 I asked a passing corporal the way to the haybag quarters. He was a married man and lived in haybag row. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) viii. 159 She is nothing but an old haybag. 1939 E. C. Abbott & H. H. Smith We pointed them North 143 A woman they called Big Ox, who was one of those old haybags that used to follow the buffalo camps. 1967 Spectator 10 Nov. 565/3 The weary certainty that one more stranger has paused to inspect her casually and to depart calling her a haybag. hay-barrack n. U.S. = barrack n.¹ 1b. ΚΠ 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 129 This contrivance is called a hay-barrack, in Pennsylvania, where they are equally used for the protection of hay as well as of corn. hay-bearded adj. having a beard of the colour or texture of hay. ΚΠ 186–. O. W. Holmes Hunt after Captain in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 29 A grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face. hay-box n. (a) dialect a hay-loft; (b) a box filled with hay in which food after being brought to boiling-point in a saucepan is placed to finish cooking; also attributive; (c) a box containing hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] range1423 buccan1611 fire-range1668 stew-stove1727 screw-range1772 stew-hole1780 cooking stove1796 range stove1803 cooking range1805 cookstove1820 kitchener1829 gas range1853 cooker1860 gas cooker1873 Soyer's stove1878 hay-box1885 blazer1889 machine oven1890 paraffin stove1891 primus1893 electric cooker1894 electric range1894 Yukon stove1898 fireless cooker1904 picnic stove1910 pressure stove1914 Tommy cooker1915 rangette1922 Aga1931 barbecue1931 Rayburn1947 sigri1949 jiko1973 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > hay-box stove1631 hay-box1885 fireless cooker1904 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > hay store hay-housea1000 loft1530 hayloft1570 hay-barn1577 tallet1586 hay-tallat1697 hay-box1885 1885 B. Brierley Tales & Sketches Lancs. Life iii. 45 There's a hay-boax theere ut I've bin in afore. 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 119/2 The receptacle with its boiling contents is placed in the hay-box. 1915 Queen 13 Nov. 897/2 Boiled beef should be allowed thirty minutes' boiling for a large joint and three to four hours in the hay-box. 1927 Daily Express 6 Aug. 9/4 To feed the personnel of the force by means of new mobile hay-box cookers. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 39/2 The hay-box fold is most useful for carrying on chicks during the spring and summer months. hay-cap n. a piece of canvas or tarpaulin put on the top of a haycock or haystack to protect it from rain. ΚΠ 1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 2/2 The white hay-caps, drawn over small stacks of beans or corn in the fields on account of the rain. hay-crome n. an old kind of hay-rake (cf. crome n.); see also quot. a1825. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > hay-rake hay-crome1599 wain-rakea1642 hay-rake1725 hell-rake1794 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 40 They fell downe on their mary-bones & lift vp their hay cromes vnto him. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-crome. No rustic implement is now literally called by this name, but a metaphorical use of the word is very common. The characters scrawled by an awkward penman are likened to ‘hay-cromes and pitchforks’. † hay-dust n. Obsolete hayseed. ΚΠ 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 172 The seede of grasse, commonly called Hay-dust, is prescribed against the byting of dragons. hay-goaf n. (also †hay-golph, †hay-gulfe) a hay-mow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick moweOE rickeOE pease-ricka1325 stackc1330 tassc1330 rucka1382 hayrick14.. haystack14.. sedge reekc1440 hay-mow1483 hay-goaf1570 rack1574 hovel1591 scroo1604 mow-stack1611 sow1659 corn-rick1669 bean-rick1677 barley-mow1714 pea rick1766 rickle1768 bike1771 stacklet1796 bean-stack1828 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2247/2 The poore man and woman were compelled to steppe into an hay golph to hide themselues from their cruelty. 1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. III. xv. 254 They two being taken togeather in a hay gulfe..were carryed to the assises at Berry. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Hay-goaf, hay mow. hay-grass n. grass preserved for hay. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture > for hay hay-grass1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 286 Among the kinds of hey-grasse. 1883 Sunday Mag. July 446/1 What a leap from the grass of an English meadow..to the hay-grass in Bengal! hay-harvest n. the season when hay is made, hay-making time. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking > hay season hay-time1530 hay-harvest1552 haysela1825 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hay harvest, foenisecium. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 155 His master..had begun the hay-harvest that very morning. hay-home supper n. a meal to celebrate the successful bringing home of the hay; cf. harvest home n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > harvest-home feast kirn1777 kirn-supper1777 maiden feast1797 churn-supper1801 kirn-feast1846 hay-home supper1860 churn-getting1866 1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office ii. 34 Mrs. King would not let him go to the hay-home supper in the barn. 1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green iv. 69 That was the hay-home supper, a survival, though perhaps not more ancient than a couple of hundred years or so. hay-hut n. [translating German heuhütte] a wooden hut covering a hay-stack on the mountainside. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > part of staddle?a1500 boll-roakinga1642 hood1658 stall1688 well1710 staddle1743 hood-sheaf1799 tipple1799 hooding-sheaf1802 hooder1807 hackle1842 hay-hut1903 1903 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 3/7 One sees the bright green mountain where the hay-huts hang like birds' nests on the steep slope. 1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 2 Sept. (1932) 56 We take rucksacks.., cook our meals by some stream—and twice we have slept in hay-huts. c1912 D. H. Lawrence Love among Haystacks (1930) 63 There must be a hay hut somewhere near. We can't sleep here. hay-man n. a man who sells hay, a hay-salesman. ΚΠ 1800 G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 285 The haymen..who sell the Kentish wheat. hay-pack n. a large bundle of hay packed in a sheet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw feald?14.. bottlec1405 bunch?a1505 straw wisp?a1513 stook1571 wad1573 botillage1576 windling1645 pottle1730 bolting1784 strike1817 windle1825 wap1828 hay-pack1841 wake1847 plack1871 tibbin1900 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 212/1 Already some hay-packs were thrown in. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/1 We came in sight of some men, with hay-packs ready for the downward leap. hay-plant n. an umbelliferous plant of the Tibetan territories of southwestern China, Prangos pabularia. ΚΠ 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 490/1 The Prangos Hay-plant is herbaceous and perennial..The crop consists of the leaves, which..have a highly fragrant smell, extremely similar to that of very good new clover hay. hay-press n. U.S. a press for baling hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > baler hay-press1829 baler1888 trusser1889 pickup baler1939 1829 20th Congress 2 Sess. State P. No. 59. 3 [Improvement] in the hay press [patented Jan.] 26 [1828 by] Moses B. Bliss. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xli. 221 A large building resembling a northern hay-press. 1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xxvi. 179 To see his new red barn with its large ‘Mormon’ hay-press..consumed, was too much for the Hawkins' heart to stand. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 151/3 Our £235,000 Belt Power Hay Press. hayride n. U.S. a pleasure ride in a hay-wagon. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > ride in a wheeled vehicle > ride in types of horse-drawn vehicle buggy ride1849 straw ride1856 hayride1896 1856 Spirit of Times 8 Nov. 154/2 The invitations he had at first received to join pic-nics, boating excursions on the river, and haywagon rides, after a while became intermittent.] 1896 Advance (Chicago) 19 Mar. 414/2 Everybody being as comfortable as hay-ride etiquette permitted, the word was given, and away they went. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 50 The remembrance of poor Susy's lost hay-ride still brings me a pang. 1915 J. Webster Dear Enemy (1916) 274 We have had hay-rides and skating-parties and candy-pulls. 1966 Punch 21 Dec. 921/2 Hay-rides, an American indulgence by no means confined to Texas, are laid on by riding academies and picnic area operators. 1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 64/1 She's..become a steady patron of..hayrides..and Ladies' Nights. hay-rig n. = hay-rigging n. ΚΠ 1896 Advance (Chicago) 19 Mar. 414/1 Two great farm wagons, provided with those wide projecting frames, technically known as hay-rigs. hay-rigging n. a framework projecting from the sides of a wagon so as to increase its carrying capacity, a shelving (U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > to increase capacity cart-staff1297 thripple14.. rathe1459 summer1510 cart-ladder?1523 rail1530 rave1530 shelboard1569 wain-flakes1570 load-pina1642 shelvingsa1642 cop1679 float1686 lade1686 outrigger1794 shelvement1808 sideboard1814 heck1825 hay-rigging1855 floating rail1892 1855 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod in Putnam's Monthly June 633/1 We met several hay-riggings and farm wagons..each loaded with three large, rough deal boxes. hay-rope n. a rope twisted of hay, a hay-band. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of > made of hay or straw bandc1325 hay-rope?1523 vine1577 thumb-rope1601 thumb-band1639 suggan1722 simea1824 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx^v Bynde her heed with a hey rope..to the syde of the penne. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1661) ii. 123 If your horse be sprained..then bind him round in a hay rope. hay-scales n. U.S. a public weighing-machine for weighing loads of hay, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance > scales for weighing specific things gold-weightsa1474 hay-scales1773 1773 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1893) XXIII. 204 The Ground on which the Hay Scales stands. 1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. xvii. 327 They might as well say that the natives can tell the time by consulting..a pair of hay-scales. 1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says v. 34 The writer,..wearied of..the same unvarying prospect of ox-teams, hay-scales,..took the roving fever. 1893 Citizen Guide to Brooklyn & Long Island 8 The old hay-scales stood there, and on its roof was the first fire~bell owned by Brooklyn. hay-tallat n. a hayloft n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > hay store hay-housea1000 loft1530 hayloft1570 hay-barn1577 tallet1586 hay-tallat1697 hay-box1885 1697 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 4) v. iii. 26 To tuck it out of the Rick by little and little, as you have occasion to use it, makes it spend much better than it would otherwise do out of the Hay-Tallet. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xix. 213 Being forced to dress in the hay-tallat. hay-tea n. a decoction of hay used for cattle. ΚΠ 1826 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1844) 905 To make hay-tea. hay-time n. the season at which hay is made and carried. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking > hay season hay-time1530 hay-harvest1552 haysela1825 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 230/1 Heytyme, temps de fener. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 142 The demand for country labour is greater at hay-time . View more context for this quotation hay-worm n. a worm or caterpillar bred in hay. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) It [hay] is a proper nidus of itself, sometimes, for a much larger species of insect called the hay-worm, whose origin and changes have not, as yet, been properly observed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hayn.² Forms: Old English hege, ( heige, heage), Middle English heie, Middle English–1600s haie, hey, Middle English heyȝ, heȝe, 1500s–1600s heye, Middle English– haye, Middle English– hay. Etymology: Old English hęge ( < hagi-z ) a derivative of the same root as haga* haw n.¹ and hedge n. In its Middle English form the word became more or less identified with French haie < Old Low German haga (compare Middle Dutch hāge) hedge, a word of cognate origin. Now archaic or dialect. 1. A hedge, a fence. (In some 17th cent. writers distinguished as a ‘dead hedge’.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence hayc725 gartha1340 tiningc1440 mound?a1500 frith1511 dike1567 sepiment1656 c725 Corpus Gloss. 606 Crates, hegas. 845 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 437 Et jacit be norðan hege. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 448 Wiðutan minum hegum. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 817 The vox kan crope bi the heie. a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxxviii[i]. 41 [40] Þou for-dide his haies. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiv Both on hayes and in freshe greues. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 13 §7 The Heyes, Fences, Dikes or Hedges next adjoining..any high or common fairing Way. 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xx. f. 152^v The wild beasts..must haue their free passage..without any forestalling or foresetting of them..either with dogges, gunne, crosbow, longbow, dead hey, quick hey, or any maner of engin or let whatsoeuer. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 239 A hedge implieth quickset and trees: but a hay a dead fence, that may be made one yeare, and pulled downe another. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 17 The game was usually enclosed with a haye or fence-work of netting. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay, a hedge; more particularly a clipped quickset hedge. 1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom ii. 235 The golden bilhook, wherewithal He wont to cut his way, when tangled in The matted hayes. 1880 J. E. Harting Brit. Animals Extinct ii. 224 Great tracts of forest were..inclosed within a pale, haye, or wall. 2. An enclosed space; an enclosure; a park. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > forest or park park1222 hainc1275 forest1297 firth?a1400 nether vert1598 haya1640 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > an enclosed piece of ground hawc825 towneOE purprisea1275 hainc1275 wick1301 cerne1393 firmancea1522 haining1535 haya1640 pena1640 park1658 a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §107 108 (Exeter) Another [religious house] was for..Nuns, which is now the kalender~hay. 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 57 This Hay of Hereford was a great Woodland ground near the City, and heretofore reputed a forest. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 38 The Plains or Hays below in great part being covered only with..Ling. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. ii. iii. 100 Five hays, or royal parks, each fenced in, and furnished with its lodge. 1881 Daily News 19 Nov. 2/1 The sale of 1,270 acres to one of the Dukes of Kingston out of the hays of Bilhagh and White Lodge..[in] Sherwood Forest. †3. Military. An extended line of men. Obsolete. [Compare French haie.] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > line rengec1330 ray1481 ranka1533 hay1684 line1801 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 55 Then draw up in Hay to the Rear. 1753 Execution Dr. A. Cameron (Tower Rec.) The Yeoman Warders were formed into a Hay. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hay, a straight rank of men drawn up exactly in a line. Compounds † hay-brier n. (also heybrere) Obsolete hedge-brier. ΚΠ 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 568/25 Bodarius, heybrere. haymaids n. ground-ivy. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum v. xciii. 677 Wee in English [call it]..Gill creepe by the ground, Catsfoote, Haymaides, and Alehoofe. † hay-saule n. Obsolete a hedge-stake. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cliii. 1049 Svdes..is an heysaule outher a stake yscharped at eyþer ende. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † hayn.³ Forms: Middle English–1600s haie, Middle English–1700s haye, 1500s–1600s hey(e, Middle English– hay. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman haie: origin uncertain. A conjecture is that it may have been an extension of hay n.² (compare sense 1 there quot. 1598), or of the equivalent French haie; but evidence is wanting. Obsolete. A net used for catching wild animals, esp. rabbits, being stretched in front of their holes, or round their haunts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for rabbits or hares purse net1388 hay1389 hay-netc1440 gate-net1605 flan1801 field net1814 purse1893 1389 Act 13 Rich. II Stat. 1. c. 13 §1 Nene use furettes haies rees hare pipes ne cordes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 220/2 Haye, net to catche conys wythe [1499 Pynson hay net, de Worde hanet]. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiv. sig. Xv^v He which entendeth to take the fierse & mighty lyon, pytcheth his haye or nette in the woode amonge great trees and thornes. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 139 A Rabbet, who having escap'd a Weasel, fell into the Hayes. 1710 Act 9 Anne c. 27 §5 The pernicious Practice of driving and taking them with Hayes, Tunnells and other Nets, in the Fens, Lakes, and broad Waters. 1774 Ms. Redsham Manor, Suff. Game~keeper to destroy hays, nets, and snares. 1821 Sporting Mag. 9 11 Hays, nets, low-bells, hare-pipes. figurative.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iv. 394/2 Harold..tooke counsell how hee might traine into his Haye the sonnes of Queene Emma.a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant v. i, in Comedies (1651) sig. e3^v How'l you then subdue them? Phil. By Policy, set Hays, and Traps, and Springs, And Pitfals for 'em. Compounds hay-net n. in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for rabbits or hares purse net1388 hay1389 hay-netc1440 gate-net1605 flan1801 field net1814 purse1893 c1440Hay net [see main sense]. 1813 Sporting Mag. 42 214 In his pocket were found several bag nets and a hay net. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-net, a hedge-net. A long low net, to prevent hares or rabbits from escaping to covert, in or through hedges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). hayheyn.⁴ Forms: 1500s heye, 1500s–1700s haye, 1600s haie, 1500s– hay, 1600s– hey. Etymology: Of uncertain origin: haye d'allemaigne is used in 15th cent. French by Marot. 1. a. A country dance having a winding or serpentine movement, or being of the nature of a reel. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances haya1529 trenchmore1552 hay-de-guy1579 country bumpkin1649 sedany1651 Sir Roger de Coverley1685 Frenchmore1696 mermaid1701 Moll Peatley1711 hemp-dressers1756 cottager's dance1851 pop goes the weasel1853 tempête1873 barn dance1892 line dance1961 a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 131 I cannot let the the knaue to play To dauns the hay or rune the ray. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 Thai dancit al cristyn mennis dance, the northt of scotland..ihonne ermistrangis dance, the alman haye, the bace of voragon, [etc.]. 1596 J. Davies Orchestra lxiv. sig. B5^v He taught them rounds and winding Heyes to tread. 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie v. sig. F1^v They doe most nimbly bestirre themselves sporting and playing in and out as if they were dancing the hay. 1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. iv. 80/2 Scourge him As Boys do Tops; or make him dance The Irish Hey, over a Field of Thistles Naked. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvii. 237 One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing..is what they call ‘the hay’: the figure of it, altogether, is a cypher of S's, or a number of serpentine lines interlacing or intervolving each other. ?1810 M. Edgeworth M. Lewis (1849) 151 He..danced the Hays round two elbow chairs. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iv. 69 The hymns they sang might have been a hey or a jig in a country dance. b. transferred and figurative. to dance the hay or hays: to perform winding or sinuous movements (around or among numerous objects); to go through varied evolutions like those of a dance. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course to turn and winda1398 wreathea1500 twine1553 indent1567 virea1586 crank1594 to dance the hay or hays1600 maze1605 serpent1606 to indent the way1612 cringlea1629 indenture1631 circumgyre1634 twist1635 glomerate1638 winda1682 serpentine1767 meander1785 zigzag1787 zag1793 to worm one's way1822 vandyke1828 crankle1835 thread the needle1843 switchback1903 rattlesnake1961 zig1969 1600 C. Leigh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 200 Through variety of iudgements, and euill marinership we were faine to dance the hay foure dayes together. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois i. 8 The King and subiect, Lord and euerie slaue Dance a continuall Haie. 1718 Entertainer No. 28. ⁋12 To make him thus dance the Hay of Scepticism and Latitude. 1813 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 26 614 Lord Ellenborough considered the Bill as a most arbitrary measure; it tended to make property dance the hays, and to alter every description of tenure. 1887 R. Browning D. Bartoli in Parleyings xv To be duchess was to dance the hays Up, down, across the heaven amid its host. c. Combination hay-fashion adv. ΚΠ 1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 196 He made his Horse Dance in & out of every other Tree, Hay Fashion. †2. hay-de-guy, hay-guise n. Forms: 1500s hay the gy, haydeguies, -guyes, hey-day guise, heidegyes, 1500s–1600s heydeguies, 1600s haydegues, -digyes, hey-de-gay, -gey, -guize, hydegy, hy-day-gies, nonstandard hadegynes. [lit. Hay of Guy or ? Guise.] A particular kind of hay or dance, in vogue in 16th and early 17th cent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances haya1529 trenchmore1552 hay-de-guy1579 country bumpkin1649 sedany1651 Sir Roger de Coverley1685 Frenchmore1696 mermaid1701 Moll Peatley1711 hemp-dressers1756 cottager's dance1851 pop goes the weasel1853 tempête1873 barn dance1892 line dance1961 a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues 13 Enforce me Nothing to write but hay the gy of thre. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 27 With Heydeguyes, and trimly trodden traces. c1580 Robin Goodfellow 101 in Percy Rel. (1765) III. 205 By wells and rills in meadowes greene, We nightly dance our hey-day guise. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. Argt. 75 Whilst the nimble Cambrian Rills Daunce hy-day-gies amongst the Hills. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G4^v With an heydeguies, Pipt by Tom-piper, or a Lorrel-lad. 1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. ix. sig. Gi Bee bonny, buxome, iolly. Trip haydegues beliue. 1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 49 Not in a hey-de-gay of scurvey Gallantry. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 217 Hadegynes, a Country dance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). hayn.⁶ Etymology: translating French foin. The choke of an artichoke. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > stalk vegetables > [noun] > artichokes > parts of chard1653 hay1877 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 43 Some French cooks, before sending the artichoke to table, are careful to remove the choke, or as they call it, the hay. 1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 558 Artichoke Béarnaise style, blanched, hay removed, braised in white wine, [etc.]. 1960 News Chron. 6 July 6/6 In the middle of the vegetable is the hay or choke (what would be the flower itself if it were not an artichoke but a thistle). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). Hayn.⁷ Brit. /heɪ/, U.S. /heɪ/ Etymology: < the name of William Howard Hay (1866–1940), U.S. physician. Used attributively to designate various methods of medical and dietary treatment advocated by William Hay. Hay diet n. a diet based on the belief that proteins and carbohydrates should not be eaten at the same meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > specific diets Lessian diet1646 milk-diet1671 flesh-diet1731 meagre1770 bean-diet1820 mono-diet1920 Hay diet1925 Mediterranean diet1928 Atkins1972 slim1977 F Plan Diet1982 1925 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 June 1938/2 Hay rest cure. 1933 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 25 Feb. 595/2 Can you give me any information on Dr. Hay and the Hay diet which has become so popular in certain sections of our country? I believe that it is based on the idea of not eating meats and starches in the same meal! 1936 D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel ii. 142 I wish you'd let me put you on a Hay diet. All proteins at once, all starches. 1937 W. H. Hay Human Ailments xix. 136 If you wish to end colds for all time, then merely follow the directions for building health that you will find stressed continually by the Hay System. 1937 M. Osborne (title) Meatless dishes for Hay dieters. 1969 Sinclair & Hollingsworth Hutchison's Food & Princ. Nutrition (ed. 12) viii. 193 Gastric digestion of protein is not indispensible and its importance can easily be over~estimated, as in the fallacious rationale underlying the Hay diet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hayv.¹ Etymology: < hay n.¹ 1. transitive. To furnish or supply with hay; to put (land) under hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with grass or hay turfc1430 sod1652 hay1708 meadow1768 to throw down1778 verd1778 grass1795 returf1824 stock1828 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed horses oat1732 to rack up1743 hay1858 1708 London Gaz. No. 4409/4 An Estate to be sold..well Hay'd and Wooded. 1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xiv. 143 The postillion stopped..to hay his horses. 1861 Times 27 Sept. Part of the land is hayed, the hay put in large cocks of about four tons each. 2. intransitive. To make hay. (Chiefly in gerund or present participle) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > make hay hay1553 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 2^v/2 Heiing time, fœnifacium. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1542/2 Till haruest or haieng time. 1677 Dade's Prognost. A viij In this Moneth [July] ply your Haying. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hay, to dry or cure grass for preservation. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 July 1/2 A great many of the Irish voters in towns go regularly haying, harvesting, hopping. 3. transitive. To make into hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > dry crops in field > make hay hay1884 1884 W. Barrows Oregon 332 The bunch grass..is hayed by the sun uncut. 1893 Times 11 July 4/1 In making hop bines into hay the bines must be got together directly they are ‘hayed’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † hayv.² Etymology: Old English hęgian , < haga haw n.¹, hęge hay n.² Obsolete. transitive. To enclose or fence in by a hedge; to hedge. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with a fence or hedge haya1050 frith1377 hain14.. hedgea1425 fence1435 tinec1440 bara1500 mound1515 fence1535 teen1616 mile1655 picket1745 ring-fence1761 zariba1885 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > furnish or surround with fence or hedge haya1050 palea1382 palis?a1400 hain14.. tinec1440 bara1500 mound1515 impale1530 stowerc1555 palisado1607 teen1616 palisade1632 impile1633 cancel1650 wire1691 inrail1714 ring-fence1761 whin-kid1876 a1050 Liber Scintillarum xvi. (1889) 80 Hega [sepi] earan þine mid þornum. c1425 MS. Bibl. Reg. 12 B 1 lf. 78 Sepio..to heghyn. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing, balking..haying, hedging or shawing. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Compound Contiguall Boundage is more significant, as side-haying, head-shawing, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † hayv.³ Etymology: < hay n.³ Obsolete. intransitive. To set ‘hays’ or nets for rabbits, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > hunt by trapping snarea1425 hayc1440 trapa1807 springe1895 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 221/1 Hayyn for conys, cassio. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hayen for conyes, cassio. 1572 Lease Manor Hawsted, Suffolk in Promptorium Parvulorum 221 (note) Hawking, haying [= rabbit-netting]. 1613 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcomb i. iii We shall scout here, as though we went a-haying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † hayv.⁴ Etymology: < hay n.⁴ Obsolete. intransitive. To dance the hay. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > take part in country-dance or dancing [verb (intransitive)] > specific country-dance trenchmore1598 hay1777 1777 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 269 We Danced round the Room, Hayed in and out with the Chairs, and all that. Derivatives 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! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † hayint.n.⁵ Etymology: < Italian hai pronunciation /ai/ thou hast (it). Compare Latin habet, exclaimed when a gladiator was wounded. Obsolete. A. int. An exclamation of hitting on opponent. ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. sig. I^v Oh it must be done like lightning, hay ? View more context for this quotation B. n.⁵ A home-thrust. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 24 Ah the immortall Passado, the Punto reuerso, the Hay . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c825n.²c725n.³1389n.⁴a1529n.⁶1877n.⁷1925v.¹1553v.²a1050v.³c1440v.⁴1768int.n.⁵1597
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