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Haymaking

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Hay´mak`ing
n.1.The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
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Noun1.haymaking - taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
accomplishment, achievement - the action of accomplishing something
2.haymaking - cutting grass and curing it to make hay
toil, labor, labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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Confronting him, in the room in which he sat, was a boy's portrait, which anybody seeing him would have identified as Master Christopher Casby, aged ten: though disguised with a haymaking rake, for which he had had, at any time, as much taste or use as for a diving-bell; and sitting (on one of his own legs) upon a bank of violets, moved to precocious contemplation by the spire of a village church.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Jo talks about the country where we hope to live sometime--the real country, she means, with pigs and chickens and haymaking.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
However, Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones, and to help them as much as possible she used, as soon as she left school, to lend a hand at haymaking or harvesting on neighbouring farms; or, by preference, at milking or butter-making processes, which she had learnt when her father had owned cows; and being deft-fingered it was a kind of work in which she excelled.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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