| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h |
| NOUN: | 1. Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder. 2. Slang A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: hayed, hay·ing, hays
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make (grass) into hay. 2. To feed with hay. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English h eg. See kau- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | hay er —NOUN
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