haytime

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hey-tyme; equivalent to hay +‎ time.

Noun[edit]

haytime (countable and uncountable, plural haytimes)

  1. The season in which hay is cut.
    Synonym: haying time
    • 1892, Charlotte Mary Yonge, An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village, page 146:
      These early haytimes belong to our Southern counties.