What is "haying"

Usage examples of "haying".

She had almost decided to hurl herself at him, when she espied a long wooden-handled haying fork, half buried under clumps of moldering hay.

Brandy shrieked as she heaved up the haying fork and, with all her strength, swung it against Giles's back.

Ian stepped on the pronged blades of the haying fork, and the wooden handle whipped up, striking his arm.

They would have another month of good haying weather if there was no rain.

At odd times when not haying or handling cattle, he and the boys built another room to the cabin and banked the house against the wind.

The unrest of the tribes was about to break into open warfare, and already there had been sporadic attacks on haying or woodcutting parties, and constant attacks were being made on the Missouri steamboats far to the north.

When she pulled away, he felt the strength in her arms, gained from haying and carrying heavy milk pails and stripping fat cows' udders.

No man was alone here, not when it came to haying, or opening a bank of peat or sowing in the spring.

The sun was bright, Murphy was haying in his field, and there were flowers at my feet.

It's haying time on their sister's farm, they stop working here and work there.

Just as some people got sneezes or itching spots at haying time or in a room where cats had been, others could not live with roses.

After that, the boy played a slow song like summer afternoons before haying time.

After that, the boy played a slow song like summer afternoons before haying time Paks felt her eyelids sag.

Half a life spent farming, apparently with enjoymenthe certainly retained a fondness for cows and even scythed the meadows a few times at haying time.

The pungent smell of new-mown hay filled his head, taking him back to his boyhood in the fields of his father's manor, during haying time.