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hay

noun
/heɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw (“hay”), Cimbrian höobe (“hay”), Dutch hooi (“hay”), German Heu (“hay”), Luxembourgish Hee (“hay”), Mòcheno hei (“hay”), Yiddish היי (hey, “hay”), Danish hø (“hay”), Faroese hoyggj (“hay”), Gutnish hoy (“hay”), Icelandic hey (“hay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk høy (“hay”), Swedish hö (“hay”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi, “grass, hay”). More at hew.

  1. inherited from *hawją✻
  2. inherited from *hawi✻
  3. inherited from hīeġ
  4. inherited from hey

Definitions

  1. Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

    • Make hay while sunne shines.
    • Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.

  2. Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.

  3. Cannabis

    Cannabis; marijuana.

    • I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.
    • Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

    2. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.

    3. To lay snares for rabbits.

    4. A hedge.

    5. A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.

    6. An enclosure, haw.

    7. A circular country dance.

      • My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,
      • I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.

    8. The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

    9. A surname.

    10. A place name

      A place name:

The neighborhood

Derived

deer-hay, hay-asthma, haybag, hay bag, haybale, hayband, haybarn, hay bed, haybird, haybote, hay-bote, haybox, haycap, haycart, haycation, haycock, hay-cock, hay devil, hayer, hayey, hay fever, hay-fever, hayfever, hayfield, Hayford, hayfork, hayhead, hay is for horses, hay knife, haylage, hayland, hayless, haylift, haylike, hay loft, hayloft, haymaker, haymaking, Haymarket, haymonger · +41 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hay. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hay02grass03grain04harvested05harvest06product07nails08corn09crop10fodder

A definitional loop anchored at hay. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at hay

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA