salt hay

American  

noun

1. hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.

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Etymology

Origin of salt hay

An Americanism dating back to 1640–50

Example Sentences

In the old days, swampers was folk who lived in shacks near the salt marsh or on the creek, and got by digging clams and trapping crabs and lobster and selling salt hay to the farmers.

From Literature

Or earlier to keep the marsh dry enough for cattle to graze on salt hay, the very plant that the saltmarsh sparrow nests in.

From New York Times

Mosquitoes buzz as Samantha Apgar holds aside a tangle of marsh grass, or salt hay, to show me the hidden nest.

From New York Times

Sea-cabbage; salt hay; sea-rushes; ooze—sea-ooze; gluten—sea-gluten; sea- scum; spawn; surf; beach; salt-perfume; mud; sound of walking barefoot ankle deep in the edge of the water by the sea.

From The New Yorker

Riding her into the Meadowlands with Daddy on a clear Saturday morning, letting her graze the salt hay and cordgrass.

From Literature