Hays
[ heyz ]
/ heɪz /
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noun
Will (Harrison),1879–1954, U.S. lawyer, politician, and official of the motion-picture industry.
a city in central Kansas.
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hay
[ hey ]
/ heɪ /
noun
verb (used with object)
to convert (plant material) into hay.
to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
verb (used without object)
to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
Origin of hay
before 900; Middle English; Old English hēg; cognate with German Heu, Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi. See hew
Hay
[ hey ]
/ heɪ /
noun
John Milton,1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.
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hay
1/ (heɪ) /
noun
verb
to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
(tr) to feed with hay
Word Origin for hay
Old English hieg; related to Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi, Old Frisian hē, Old High German houwi; see hew
hay
2hey
/ (heɪ) /
noun
a circular figure in country dancing
a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
Word Origin for hay
C16: of uncertain origin
Hay
/ (heɪ) /
noun
Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
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hay
"grass mown," Old English heg (Anglian), hieg, hig (West Saxon) "grass cut or mown for fodder," from Proto-Germanic *haujam (cf. Old Norse hey, Old Frisian ha, Middle Dutch hoy, German Heu, Gothic hawi "hay"), literally "that which is cut," or "that which can be mowed," from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (cf. Old English heawan "to cut;" see hew). Slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally "to sleep in a barn;" hay in the general figurative sense of "bedding" (e.g. roll in the hay) is from 1903.
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hay
see hit the hay; make hay while the sun shines; roll in the hay; that ain't hay.
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