Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > hay or straw (20) hayc825 Grass cut or mown, and dried for use as fodder; formerly (as still sometimes) including grass fit for mowing, or preserved for mowing. strawc1000 The stems or stalks (esp. dry and separated by threshing) of certain cereals, chiefly wheat, barley, oats, and rye. Used for many purposes, e.g. as… pease-strawa1325 bean-strawc1386 the dried stems of the bean-plant. hard meat1481 Grain or hay used as fodder for animals, as opposed to grass. Cf. hard, adj. 1f. Now rare. quitch?1523 In full quitch hay. (Perhaps) hay made from greater bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus pedunculatus. Obsolete. rare. meadow1557 Hay mown from a meadow; = meadow hay n. at compounds 4. rare. pease-bolt1573 = pea straw n. at pea, n.2 compounds 2. salt hay1648 Of plants: Growing in the sea or on salt marshes. salt grass (U.S.), one of a number of grasses growing in salt meadows or dry plains, esp. Distichl… stover1669 spec. In various applications according to locality: Hay made from clover; broken straw, etc. from the threshing-floor; stubble. (See quots.) barley-straw1678 marsh hay1728 hay made from marsh grasses. pea straw1735 the stalks and leaves of the pea plant, used as fodder or for mulching. chaff1772 Cut hay and straw used for feeding cattle. (It is doubtful whether the early instances of ‘chaff’ used in brickmaking, etc., belong here. A… long forage1794 straw and green fodder, as distinguished from hay, oats, etc. bog-hay1799 bhusa1829 Husks and broken straw, used as food for cattle. Also attributive. peavine hay1846 hay made from the climbing stem and foliage of the cultivated pea, Pisum sativum, or the black-eyed pea, Vigna sinensis. tibbin1900 Hay or chopped straw; chaff. slough hay1934 (hay made from) slough grass. |
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