Definition of hay

"hay" in the noun sense

1. hay

grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

"hay" in the verb sense

1. hay

convert (plant material) into hay

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Quotations for hay

Make your hay as best you may. [ Proverb ]

Make hay while the sun shines. [ Proverb ]

To seek a needle in a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]

Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]

Make no orts (leftovers) of good hay. [ Proverb ]

A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay,
Is all one at Doomsday. [ Proverb ]

Tittle-tattle, give the goose more hay. [ Proverb ]

I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. [ Proverb ]

It is hard to make a good web of a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]

Sick of the mulligrubs with eating of chopped hay. [ Proverb ]

You eat up that grass, which I meant to make hay of. [ Proverb ]

In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).

As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]

hay in Scrabble®

The word hay is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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hay in Words With Friends™

The word hay is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of hay

2 letter words in hay (4 words)

3 letter words in hay (Anagrams) (2 words)

hay + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving hay

Shorter words in hay

ay

ha

Longer words containing hay

haybox hayboxes

hayburner hayburners

haycap haycaps

haycock haycocks

hayed sashayed

hayer hayers

hayfever hayfevers

hayfield hayfields

hayfork hayforks

haygrower haygrowers

haying sashaying

haylift haylifts

hayloft haylofts

haymaker haymakers

haymaking haymakings

haymonger haymongered

haymonger haymongerer haymongerers

haymonger haymongeries

haymonger haymongering

haymonger haymongers

haymonger haymongery

haymow haymows

hayrack hayracks

hayrake hayraker hayrakers

hayrake hayrakes

hayrick hayricks

hayride hayrides

hays hayseed hayseeds

hays haystack haystacks

hays sashays

haywagon haywagons

hayweed hayweeds

haywire haywired

haywire haywires

haywiring

sashay sashayed

sashay sashaying

sashay sashays