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HAY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does hay mean?

• HAY (noun)
The noun HAY has 1 sense:

1. grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

Familiarity information: HAY used as a noun is very rare.

• HAY (verb)
The verb HAY has 1 sense:

1. convert (plant material) into hay

Familiarity information: HAY used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HAY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hay" is a kind of...):

fodder (coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hay"):

timothy (a grass grown for hay)

Holonyms ("hay" is a substance of...):

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

• HAY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Convert (plant material) into hay

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "hay" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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