noun
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Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
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Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
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Cannabis; marijuana.
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A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
verb
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To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
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To lay snares for rabbits.
Examples of hay in a Sentence
When the tines get full of hay, you lift it.
He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.
He pushed up from the floor and brushed hay from his clothes.
She stood and brushed the hay from her clothes.
The barn smelled of fresh hay, oats and molasses.
In the hay beside their mother, lay two tiny bodies, soft and clean.
Is this about the hay ride and barbeque?
To remember her gave him pleasure, and when his comrades, hearing of his adventure at Bogucharovo, rallied him on having gone to look for hay and having picked up one of the wealthiest heiresses in Russia, he grew angry.
She pealed off a couple of leaves of hay and threw them into Ed's stall.
Is there any hay here?
The smell of alfalfa came from a stack of hay in the corner.
Then she threw a leaf of alfalfa hay into her stall.
The surface is to be afterwards covered with hay or litter.
He took a tumble in the hay with the farmers' daughter.
The crop of English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.
Did you put some more hay in her stall?
He dived into the hay after her and she twisted away.
She forked some hay to Princes and leaned the pitchfork against the wall near the door.
Josh remained sitting in the hay, staring at her as if confused by her response.
A grown woman playing in the hay with a lamb – all dressed up.
A fire without light, compared to the heat which gathers in a haystack when the hay has been stored before it was properly dry - heat, in short, as an agitation of the particles - is the motive cause of the contraction and dilatations of the heart.
He asked for a samovar and for hay for his horses, and when he had had his tea he went to bed.
Aaron and Rob helped her unsaddle the horses and get them into stalls with hay and water.
He pretended not to be listening when Carmen announced a barbeque and hay ride for Sunday evening.
In 1909 the acreage of hay alone was 675,000 acres, and the crop was 844,000 tons, valued at $11,225,000.
She pulled a handful of hay from under the tarp and fed it to the horse.
Alex paused at the hay pile and sat down, cross-legged, while he examined a chart.
If she were willing to take that tumble in the hay, he'd hang around a while longer?
She cut the strings and pulled a few leaves from a new bale of alfalfa hay.
She was surprised to see him with Lori, rolling in the hay - and there was no question about what was going on this time.
As the tableland runs northward it decreases both in height and width, until it narrows to a few miles only, with an elevation of scarcely 1500 ft.; under the name of the Blue Mountains the plateau widens again and increases in altitude, the chief peaks being Mount Clarence(4000 ft.), Mount Victoria (3525 ft.), and Mount Hay (3270 ft.).
In 1909 on 879,000 acres a crop of hay (excluding forage) was raised valued at $16,155,000.
Again, although from the richest old permanent meadow-lands very heavy crops of hay are taken season after season, the general average yield of permanent grass is about 3 cwt.
In 1882, at Reading, a gold medal was given for a cream separator for horse power, whilst a prize of roo guineas offered for the most efficient and most economical method of drying hay or corn crops artificially, either before or after being stacked, was not awarded.
In 1888, at Nottingham, hay and straw presses for steam-power, horse-power and handpower were the subjects of competition.
There is a great variety of produce, but the principal crops are Indian corn, wheat, oats, hay, potatoes, apples and tobacco.
It was not long, however, before the stock-feeder in the South found that cotton seed hulls were an excellent substitute for hay.
In 1907-8, according to the state Department of Agriculture, the total value of all field crops (cotton, cereals, sugar-cane, hay and forage, sweet potatoes, &c.) was $11,856,340, and the total value of all farm products (including live stock, $20,817,804, poultry and products, $1,688,433, and dairy products, $1,728,642) was $46,371,320.
Before his time there were no reports of admiralty cases, except Hay and Marriott's prize decisions.
The principal products are corn, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, beetroot, hemp, flax, hay and other fodder.
From 1741 to 1747 he lived with Lord Blantyre and Mr Hay of Drummelzier at Utrecht, and made excursions in Flanders, France and Germany.
Other important crops in the order of their value are oats, hay and forage, Indian corn, barley, flax-seed, potatoes, rye, grass seeds, wild grass, clover, beans, peas, and miscellaneous vegetables and orchard products.
It lives entirely away from houses, commonly taking up its abode in wheat or hay fields, where it builds a round grass nest about the size of a cricket-ball, in which it brings up its young.
The crops raised in the country districts are principally vegetables and fruit, potatoes, hay, oats, rye and wheat.
This is known as cake saffron to distinguish it from hay saffron, which consists merely of the dried stigmas.
The survival of names of obliterated physical features or characteristics is illustrated in Section I.; but additional instances are found in the Strand, which originally ran close to the sloping bank of the Thames, and in Smithfield, now the central meat market, but for long the " smooth field " where a cattle and hay market was held, and the scene of tournaments and games, and also of executions.
Of other markets, the Whitechapel Hay Market and Borough Market, Southwark, are under the control of trustees; and Woolwich Market is under the council of that borough.
He planted his ordnance on Hay Hill, and then marched by St James's Palace to Charing Cross.
There are large copper-smelting establishments in the city, which exports a very large amount of copper, some gold and silver, and cattle and hay to the more northern provinces.
In the same year the chief crops were oats, barley, rye, wheat, potatoes and hay.