hayed
Gathered dried grass
Hayed is the past tense of hay, meaning to cut, dry, and store grass or other plants as animal fodder.
Farmers hayed their fields in summer when conditions allowed the crop to dry properly: We hayed the back forty before the rain came.
Someone who has hayed knows the exhausting work of gathering and baling in hot weather.
baler
Bundle-making farm machine
rake · pitchfork · mower · stacking · bale · barn · tractor · drying · forage · fodder
harvest
Gathering mature crops
- sunshineDirect rays from above
- heatwaveProlonged abnormally high temperatures
- pasturelandLand for grazing animals
meadow · farmhands · fieldwork · solstice · barn · drought · countryside
- needle in a haystackExtremely difficult thing to locate
- hay feverAllergic rhinitis from pollen
- hit the hayGo to sleep, informally
- hitting the hayGoing to bed
- hay balesCompressed dried grass blocks
- rolls in the hayCasual sexual encounters
hay, haystack, haying, hayloft, hays, haymaker, haymaking, haystacks, haylofts