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hay
Pronunciation: (hā), [key]—
n.
1. grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
2. grass mowed or intended for mowing.
3. Slang.
a. a small sum of money:
Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
b. money:
A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
4. Slang.marijuana.
5. a roll in the hay, Slang.sexual intercourse.
6. hit the hay, Informal.to go to bed:
It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
7. in the hay, in bed; retired, esp. for the night:
By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
8. make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual:
The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
9. make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself:
If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines. Also,make hay.
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v.t.
1. to convert (plant material) into hay.
2. to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
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v.i.
to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
Hay
Pronunciation: (hā), [key]—
n.
John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
