Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hay
IPA transcription: [h'eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hay
    Meaning: grass mowed and cured for use as fodder
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hay
    Meaning: convert (plant material) into hay
Usage examples
  • "The hay will be spoiled," he said.
  • An old cap pushed up through the hay.
  • A favorite amusement used to be an obstacle race when the barn was full of hay.
  • Lucas won't be here and now the weather is so fine I want to make haste with the hay."
  • "How strong the smell of the fresh hay is, though," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, getting up.
  • Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.
  • Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.
  • If they are living in a barn, they make their nest of hay and any soft material they can find.
  • Then they lay up in the hay where there was a little window, looking far out across the meadows.
  • "I don't understand you," said Levin, sitting up in the hay; "how is it such people don't disgust you?