Synonyms for hay

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hey

Phonetic Transcription : heɪ

Définition of hay

Origin : "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.

noun dried grass

Example sentences :

He's got a hay rack with him, and that would be just the thing to take your tent and poles.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

And Otto ran away barely in time to catch the groom, who was going for the hay.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

By golly, we'll stake her to a hay knife and tell her to go after him!
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

They fought for bread, as horses when there is no hay in the rack.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

And he sed "Oh you git out, you've got hay seed in your hair."
Extract from : « Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories » by Cal Stewart

The Grizzly was surprised; but he replied with a left-hander that knocked her over like a sack of hay.
Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton

I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

Then I wish I could make hay of them, for hay is much wanting for the horses that's in it.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

You've got so you think that hay and bread and pork and beans are all men live and die for!
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

How deliciously far away from hay was this chap's feeling for Mozart.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

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