haying

Hay  (h), John Milton 1838-1905.

American public official and writer who served as ambassador to Great Britain (1897-1898) and U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905). His literary works include poetry and a life of Abraham Lincoln (1890).

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hay  (h)

n.

1. Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.

2. Slang A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.

v. hayed, hay·ing, hays

v.intr.

To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.

v.tr.

1. To make (grass) into hay.

2. To feed with hay.

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[Middle English, from Old English heg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]

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hayer n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	haying - the harvesting of hay                 harvest home, harvesting, harvest - the gathering of a ripened crop
	2.	haying - the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder haying time time of year, season - one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons"