HAY


Meaning of HAY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

hay fever

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

good

And the best load of hay - he'd come out and ask me at the finish.

Nothing in this world smells better than good fresh hay .

■ NOUN

bale

David Harper said he became frantic when the hay bales in the barn caught light.

The hay bales caused disagreements as well.

barn

Following the demise of the canal, the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm.

Time allowed 01:25 Read in studio Police are hunting arsonists who're targeting hay barns at the height of the harvest.

fever

Serge wouldn't even allow her a kitten because of his hay fever .

Our 4-year-old daughter is sneezing like she has hay fever .

Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever .

Children can have hay fever , and despite the name, spring is not an uncommon time for its symptoms to appear.

The treatment is effective for a wide range of illnesses as well as for allergies and hay fever .

He was, however, often racked by asthma and suffered much from hay fever .

The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat, and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency.

Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be.

meadow

Upland valleys present additional problems because of their often numerous isolated field barns - sometimes one for each hay meadow .

On the Baca Ranch itself, Boyce proposes to stop irrigating artificial hay meadows .

There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow , away from the house and the other barns.

For these plants to survive, even in these beneficial conditions, it is necessary to have traditionally managed hay meadows .

■ VERB

cut

Some of the grass is cut for hay .

Well, we had one man who could cut a truss of hay almost to a pound.

This grass is cut for hay or for silage and sometimes for two crops of silage.

feed

Since the first draw we have been feeding concentrates and hay at a daily cost of 10p / head.

During the night of December 5, Pere Noel feeds the hay to his reindeer and leaves a present in its place.

make

He shall make hay with the others in that meadow and the lord shall give them 12d.

They are making hay while they can.

Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay .

She's making hay while the sun shines and who can blame her?

These mixtures are earlier growing and more prolific than meadow-grass, and can be more difficult to make into top-quality hay .

She made it clear she was making hay while the sun shone.

But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor.

It's not enough to enjoy yourself, you must make hay while the sun shines.

roll

Women like the fact that he looks like he's been rolling around in hay .

Still, it didn't matter, we spent the days rolling the hay .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a roll in the hay

new-mown hay/grass etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bale of hay

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He loves the odors of the animals, the odor of the hay , new cut and drying.

It is considerably higher in protein, calcium, and vitamins, than any other hay .

Jack saw the cat first, yellowish orange and brown and curled up on some hay , and quiet.

Lying around on bales of hay were about a dozen Commandos.

Ranchers, who have been hurting from low calf prices for years, are reluctant to buy hay .

There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow, away from the house and the other barns.

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