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haysel

haysel noun: the season of making hay.

Noun

haysel (plural haysels)

  1. The season of making hay.
    • There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119
    • Now we are in a fit mood for dinner,” said Dick, when we had dressed and were going through the grass again; “and certainly of all the cheerful meals in the year, this one of haysel is the cheerfullest; not even excepting the corn-harvest feast; for then the year is beginning to fail, and one...[1890], William Morris, News from Nowhere, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, page 281

Forms of haysel

pluralhaysels

Origin of haysel

From hay + sele (“season”).

Questions about haysel

What does haysel mean?
Haysel means the season of making hay.
What part of speech is haysel?
Haysel is a noun.
What is the plural of haysel?
The plural of haysel is haysels.

Words near haysel in the dictionary

  1. Hays Code
  2. Hays County
  3. Hayse
  4. hayseed
  5. hayseeds
  6. haysel
  7. haysels
  8. Hayses
  9. hayshed
  10. haysheds
  11. Hayshee

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