haying time


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Noun1.haying time - the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder
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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"
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During haying time and putting up wheat and barley, we'd get some help," Fred recalls.
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Because in most years we get a lot of rain in haying time I made a silage wagon from the bottom part of a dismantled lawn sweeper.
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across the fields of kale: ("Autumn"); friends who "smelt the meadow, / The cows, the grass, the ground, / And who heard the sound of churning / As the brown horse clopped around" ("My Mates"); haying time, when "The towering wagons now can barely / Drive in through the great barn doors" ("At Haying Time"); but also cattle-feeding time, walking a plank across a stream, meadows with fragrant clover, the bent trees around a churchyard defending the dead against the autumn storms.
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