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Definitions for Hay

[1] grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
[2] grass mowed or intended for mowing.
[3] Slang . a small sum of money: Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay. money: A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
[4] Slang . marijuana.
[5] to convert (plant material) into hay.
[6] to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
[7] to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
[8] a roll in the hay , Slang . sexual intercourse.
[9] hit the hay , Informal . to go to bed: It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
[10] in the hay , in bed; retired, especially for the night: By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
[11] make hay of , to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual: The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
[12] 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.
[13] John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
[14] a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.
[15] grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder (in combination ) a hayfield ; a hayloft
[16] hit the hay slang to go to bed
[17] make hay of to throw into confusion
[18] make hay while the sun shines to take full advantage of an opportunity
[19] roll in the hay informal sexual intercourse or heavy petting
[20] to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
[21] (tr) to feed with hay
[22] a circular figure in country dancing
[23] a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
[24] Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)

Words related to Hay

fodder, grass, feed, chaff, forage, provender, swath, herbage

Words nearby Hay

hawthorn, hawthorne, hawthorne effect, hawthorne, nathaniel, hawthornesque, hay, hay fever, hay rake, hay shock, hay-pauncefote treaty, hay-scented fern

Origin of Hay

before 900; Middle English; Old English hēg; cognate with German Heu, Old Norse hey, Gothic hawi. See hew

Other words from Hay

hay·ey , adjective
un·hayed , adjective

Word origin for Hay

C16: of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Hay

fodder, grass, chaff, feed, forage, herbage, provender, swath