Concept cluster: Tools > Hay and haymaking process
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(countable) A raft made from bundles of the stems of this plant.
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Moist, dense forage for animals, produced in a baler.
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(figuratively, by extension) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
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(Southern England, archaic, countable) A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
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A basket used for storing or carrying bread.
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(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
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(obsolete) Part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
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One who carries out the carroting process upon animal pelts.
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Alternative form of tyebble [(Tyneside) table]
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To break up ground with a hoe.
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A small conical pile of hay.
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(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
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(Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
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A decorative basket.
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One who puts corks into bottles.
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(UK, dated) A small room connected to a threshing floor.
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An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
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(chiefly North-country English dialectal) the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
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A shoot that develops from an ear of grain
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A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
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A rick or stack (of hay, etc.) when laid up inside a barn
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(dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
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(botany) Alternative spelling of haulm [(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.]
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(UK) A gift basket.
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A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper
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A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.
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(obsolete) A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.
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Alternative form of haulm (a stalk) [(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.]
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(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
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A bag filled with hay.
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Alternative form of haynet [A bag made of netting, used to hold hay for feeding horses.]
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Alternative form of haybote [(UK, law, obsolete) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote.]
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a small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is being cured or awaiting relocation to a barn
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A bale of hay.
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A canvas covering for a haycock.
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A small, conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack.
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One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
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A field of hay.
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A type of harvester head used to reap hay.
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(agriculture) A type of silage with a high dry-matter content, made from the same grasses or legumes from which hay is made (such as alfalfa, timothy, and others) but not dried as much as hay nor as little as direct-chop/green-chop silage (before being ensiled).
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Grassland whose grass is cut for hay.
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(agriculture) A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
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The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
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A pile of hay stored in a barn.
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A bag made of netting, used to hold hay for feeding horses.
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A pile of hay, typically being dried to make thatch
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A freestanding vertical drying-rack for animal fodder.
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A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
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A haystack.
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A horserake for making up hay into ricks.
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The season of making hay.
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A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
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A stalk of hay.
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The season in which hay is cut.
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(transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
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(old South-West England dialect) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.
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A field in which hops are grown
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(countable) A hemp sack used for holding hops.
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(agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
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A head of grain.
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(archaic) A place for storing wool.
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(literally) To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.
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Any small hole or opening.
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The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
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(obsolete) Of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
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A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
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(agriculture) A layered framework of beds for growing potatoes, stacked one above the other.
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pothook (hook used to suspend a cooking-pot)
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
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(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) The horizontal bar in an open chimney on which cooking vessels are hung.
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Alternative form of randle-balk [(UK, dialect, obsolete) The horizontal bar in an open chimney on which cooking vessels are hung.]
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(slang) A device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal. In the livestock industry it is called a feed rack or stanchion.
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Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
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One who thatches with reeds.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) sedge; seaweed
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Alternative form of randle-balk [(UK, dialect, obsolete) The horizontal bar in an open chimney on which cooking vessels are hung.]
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(obsolete) A row of rooms or pillars etc.
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Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
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A staddle for a hayrick.
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A farmyard where hayricks are stored.
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(UK, dialect) rowen; a second crop of hay
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A second crop of hay; aftermath.
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(historical) A rural festival when the parish church was strewn with rushes, between haymaking and harvest.
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(agriculture) Silage made from rye: rye silage.
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Alternative spelling of shadoof [A device used to gather water, consisting of a pivoted stick with a bucket on the end of it.]
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A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
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A row of sheds; especially, a row of barns for horses at the start of a race track.
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(Canadian Prairies) hay (fodder) cut from the edges of a slough (pond or ephemeral wetland)
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(mostly Isle of Man, also Scotland and Ireland) A chain or hook used for hanging a pot while cooking.
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A bushing.
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A skilful whaler.
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A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
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A covering or protection for a haystack, such as a canvas.
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(agriculture) One of the separate plots into which a cock of hay is shaken out for the purpose of drying.
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(specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).
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A bale of straw.
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(UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
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(historical) A slingstone used by the ancient Celts, made by mixing human brains with lime and allowing it to harden.
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The process by which hay is tedded, or spread out for drying.
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(chiefly Kent dialect) Brushwood for fences and hedges.
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Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
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(transitive) To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
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(Channel Islands) A vraic-harvester.
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haystack
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A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
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A basket used to winnow rice or grain from the chaff.
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(Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.
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Alternative form of yelm [(dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching.]
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(dialect) To prepare straw for use as thatch.
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(dialect) One who prepares straw for use as thatch.

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