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haymaking

haymaking noun: the cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.

Noun

haymaking (countable and uncountable, plural haymakings)

  1. The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
    • They especially liked to be with the mowers in the hay-making season, seating themselves, greatly to their satisfaction, on the long thick branch of a maple-tree, among the dense foliage.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 93
    • The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279
  2. Taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts.
    • In their haymaking days, the Spoonful created a string of '60s chestnuts: "Do You Believe In Magic?", "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice," "Daydream," "Summer In The City," "Nashville Cats."1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 330

haymaking meaning in Kannada

haymaking in Kannada

ಹುಲ್ಲು ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಹುಲ್ಲನ್ನು ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಹರವುವುದು, ಗಾಳಿ ಬಂದಾಗ ತೂರಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು

Forms of haymaking

pluralhaymakings

Origin of haymaking

From Middle English hey makyng; equivalent to hay + making.

Questions about haymaking

What does haymaking mean?
Haymaking means the cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
What is haymaking in Kannada?
Haymaking in Kannada is ಹುಲ್ಲು ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಹುಲ್ಲನ್ನು ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಹರವುವುದು, ಗಾಳಿ ಬಂದಾಗ ತೂರಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು. See Haymaking meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is haymaking?
Haymaking is a noun.
What is the plural of haymaking?
The plural of haymaking is haymakings.

Words near haymaking in the dictionary

  1. hayloft
  2. haylofts
  3. Haylor
  4. haymaker
  5. haymakers
  6. haymaking
  7. haymakings
  8. Hayman
  9. Hayman Island
  10. Haymanot
  11. Haymans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haymaking (page history and authors); haymaking (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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