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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haymaking
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the children returned to school in mid-August there came haymaking and harvesting the oats.
▪ Farmers were never averse to some eager additional help at haymaking and harvesting time.
▪ It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest.
▪ Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
▪ One Cabinet Minister wanted his bodyguards to help with the haymaking at his farm.
▪ The rising cost of power for heating and blowing air now makes barn-drying less attractive when compared with conventional haymaking.
▪ The three of us used to go down in summer to stay and do the haymaking.
▪ They would visit to see what it was doing at particular times, like haymaking.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haymaking

Haymaking \Hay"mak`ing\, n. The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

Wiktionary
haymaking

n. The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals

WordNet
haymaking

  1. n. taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts

  2. cutting grass and curing it to make hay

Wikipedia
Haymaking (disambiguation)

Haymaking is the process of hay production and harvest.

Haymaking may also refer to:

  • The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), a 1565 oil on wood painting by Peter Bruegel
  • Haymaking, a 1860 painting by Peter Paul Marshall
  • Haymaking, a 1877 painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage
  • Haymaking, a painting by Henry George Hine
  • Haymaking, a 1964 painting by Sergei Ivanovich Osipov
  • "Haymaking", a poem by Russian poet Apollon Maykov
  • "Haymaking", a poem by English poet John Clare
  • "Haymaking", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
  • Haymaking, the 1966 winner of the Nassau Stakes, Coronation Stakes, and Select Stakes
  • "Haymaking", a song by the Russian band Lubeh

Usage examples of "haymaking".

There had been a haymaking harvest-home which was supposed to give special occasion for mirth, as Sir Alured farmed the land around the park himself, and was great in hay.

He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.

Every last bit of it, good and bad - Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying 'mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but', people apologizing to me when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays - every bit of it.