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hay

/heɪ/ verb C2
  1. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
  2. To lay snares for rabbits.

He/she/it hays · Past hayed · Past participle hayed · -ing form haying

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Verb forms

Base form
hay
He/she/it
hays
Past
hayed
Past participle
hayed
-ing form
haying

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The happy hills of hay.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 12 · C1
There they had found nobody either, for Marilla had gone to Carmody and Matthew was making hay in the back field.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 228 · C1
They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay, and, as luck would have it, Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 274 · C1
A DOG lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2

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