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This only half concerned me, for my hay was already in the lofts before the war began, and two elderly men who had applied for work as bunchers, had been engaged for the last week in August After service at Charly, I walked across to the post office.

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  1. noun Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.
  2. noun Slang A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.
  3. intransitive verb To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.
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  • Premium alfalfa hay is at $200 per ton or higher, more than double the cost a few years ago.
  • The difficulty in making the hay is a drawback, but this is over-rated. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
  • The soldiers, at the request of Mr. Campbell, were allowed to remain till the hay-harvest, and as soon as the hay was gathered in, they were paid and returned to the fort. —  The Settlers in Canada
  • By this time the hay was all cut, and that portion which was sufficiently dry piled up, so Ulf and Haldor left the work to be finished by the younger hands, and stood together in the centre of the field chatting and looking on Little change had taken place in the personal appearance of Ulf of Romsdal since the occasion of that memorable duel related in the first chapter of our story. —  Erling the Bold
  • You said you would when the hay was all in, and it is all in, ain't it? —  The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hīeg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hay, hey, heiz, hay, also growing grass, from Anglo-Saxon hīg, Old Northumbrian hēg, heig, hoeg, hay, also growing grass, = Dutch hooi = Old High German hewi, houwe, Middle High German höu, hou, houwe, German heu (hau, obsolete) = Icelandic hey = Swedish Danish hö, hay, = Gothic (Moesogothic) hawi, hay, grass; prob. orig. grass cut or to be cut, from Anglo-Saxon heáwan, English hew, etc., cut: see hew.
  2. from hay, n.
  3. from Middle English haye, heye, from Anglo-Saxon hege, a hedge, fence, from haga, a hedge, later English haw: see haw and hedge.
  4. from hay, n., 2.
  5. Italian hai, you have it, 2d person singular present indicative of avere, from Latin habere, have: see habit, have. Cf. Latin habet, he has it, an exclamation used when a gladiator was wounded.
 

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