hays
Cuts and dries
Hays is the plural of hay or the third-person singular verb: The farmer hays his fields in late June.
Hay is dried grass or other plants used as animal feed.
To hay is to cut, dry, and store such fodder.
The barn held several hays of different quality. (Capitalized Hays refers to a person or place, notably the Hays Code.)
Forage crop legume
- balingCompressing into tied bundles
- fodderCoarse livestock nourishment
- silageFermented crop fodder
- balerBundle-making farm machine
livestock · cattle · forage · meadow · pasture · barn · mower · thresher
Pointed implement for sewing
- searchAct of seeking
- hiddenKept out of sight
- proverbTraditional saying expressing truth
- findLocate through effort
lost · concealment · vastness · bale · stacked · pile · mound · towering
alfalfa
Forage crop legume
baler · livestock · cattle · forage · meadow · pasture · barn · mower · thresher · prairie
needle
Pointed implement for sewing
find · lost · concealment · vastness · bale · stacked · pile · mound · towering · farmyard
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
crop · yield · sheaf · fieldwork · farmhand · winnowing · husbandry · haymaking · mowing · raking
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- bucolicIdyllically rural
- rusticRural and unrefined
idyllic · homestead · meadows · scenic · tranquil · serenity · landscapes · greenery · rolling · golden
- needle in a haystackExtremely difficult thing to locate
- hay feverAllergic rhinitis from pollen
- hit the hayGo to sleep, informally
- hitting the hayGoing to bed
- go haywireMalfunction chaotically
- hay balesCompressed dried grass blocks