haymakingn.

Etymology: formed as haymaker n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhaymaking.

The process of cutting and drying grass for hay. Also figurative and transferred. The action of ‘making hay’ (see hay n.¹ 3).

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking

haymaking1584

haying1677

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxlii. 257 How that at Yorke the Monkes of S. Marie Abbey, and the Nonnes of Clement Thorpe, mette together at hey making.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 49 Tooke his seruantes and went a heymaking.

1749 G. Berkeley Word to Wise in Wks. (1871) III. 447 The lightest labour, that of hay-making.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iv. 253 Where there was merry hay-making in the summer time.

1882 Daily News (Ware) A number of men go into a friend's room, find him absent, and testify to their chagrin by disturbing the arrangements of his furniture. But hay-making of this sort is comparatively harmless and inoffensive.

1924 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts (1926) 193 The hay-making of the profiteer after the war.

1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 1/2 The unrated Mexican shattered the..boxing champion's hopes of a crack at the world title with a hay-making left hook in the ninth of their..10 round fight.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as haymaking season, haymaking time, etc.

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1752 Thyer Note on Milton's L'Allegro 92 The haymaking scene in the lower lands.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 To catch Woodcocks in haymaking time.

C2.

haymaking furnace n. an apparatus in which the heat of a coke furnace is driven by a fan through new-mown hay in order to dry it.

haymaking machine n. an apparatus for drying grass for hay.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > haymaking apparatus

tuskar1808

shaker1812

haymaking machine1826

tedding-machine1843

haymaker1853

tedder1877

wuffler1978

1826 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1844) 420 Horse Rakes and Haymaking Machines.

1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 60 There was hay-making-machine-work going on at the farm.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	haymaking
释义	haymakingn. Etymology: formed as haymaker n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhaymaking. The process of cutting and drying grass for hay. Also figurative and transferred. The action of ‘making hay’ (see hay n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking haymaking1584 haying1677 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxlii. 257 How that at Yorke the Monkes of S. Marie Abbey, and the Nonnes of Clement Thorpe, mette together at hey making. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 49 Tooke his seruantes and went a heymaking. 1749 G. Berkeley Word to Wise in Wks. (1871) III. 447 The lightest labour, that of hay-making. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iv. 253 Where there was merry hay-making in the summer time. 1882 Daily News (Ware) A number of men go into a friend's room, find him absent, and testify to their chagrin by disturbing the arrangements of his furniture. But hay-making of this sort is comparatively harmless and inoffensive. 1924 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts (1926) 193 The hay-making of the profiteer after the war. 1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 1/2 The unrated Mexican shattered the..boxing champion's hopes of a crack at the world title with a hay-making left hook in the ninth of their..10 round fight. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as haymaking season, haymaking time, etc. ΚΠ 1752 Thyer Note on Milton's L'Allegro 92 The haymaking scene in the lower lands. a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 To catch Woodcocks in haymaking time. C2. haymaking furnace n. an apparatus in which the heat of a coke furnace is driven by a fan through new-mown hay in order to dry it. haymaking machine n. an apparatus for drying grass for hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > haymaking apparatus tuskar1808 shaker1812 haymaking machine1826 tedding-machine1843 haymaker1853 tedder1877 wuffler1978 1826 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1844) 420 Horse Rakes and Haymaking Machines. 1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 60 There was hay-making-machine-work going on at the farm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1584
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