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hay

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
7
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/heɪ/

Definition of hay

18 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
    “Make hay while sunne shines.”
    “Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
    “Make hay while sunne shines.”
    “Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.”
  2. (countable)Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
  3. (countable, slang, uncountable)Cannabis; marijuana.
    “I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.”
    “Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay”
  4. (countable, uncountable)A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
  5. (obsolete)A hedge.
  6. (obsolete)A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
  7. (obsolete)An enclosure, haw.
  8. (obsolete)A circular country dance.
    “My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,”
    “I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.”
  9. The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

verb

  1. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
  2. To lay snares for rabbits.

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A place name:
  3. A place name:
  4. A place name:
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)A place name:
  6. A place name:
  7. A place name:

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Etymology

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw…

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From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw (“hay”), Cimbrian höobe (“hay”), Dutch hooi (“hay”), German Heu (“hay”), Luxembourgish Hee (“hay”), Mòcheno hei (“hay”), Yiddish היי (hey, “hay”), Danish hø (“hay”), Faroese hoyggj (“hay”), Gutnish hoy (“hay”), Icelandic hey (“hay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk høy (“hay”), Swedish hö (“hay”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi, “grass, hay”). More at hew.

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