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haymaking

[ UK /hˈe‍ɪme‍ɪkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
  2. cutting grass and curing it to make hay

How To Use haymaking In A Sentence

  • Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
  • Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
  • It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • It certainly "smarted", but on the whole the birth was so straightforward I went around, for ages afterwards, droning smugly about how I was "of good working-class stock – hailing from an era when women would chuck one out, then carry on with the haymaking". Don't believe the propaganda about births at home | Barbara Ellen
  • The aerodrome was a grass field of about five hundred acres that had been laid out for training in the last war and not much used since; it was grazed by sheep and the farmer had the one small hangar full of haymaking machinery and stuff of that sort. The Rainbow and the Rose
  • Haymaking is hungry work.
  • Farmers are reverting to clamps of silage or traditional haymaking which is very difficult in the conditions which are far from ideal.
  • purline beam" in the barn as fast as a man in the hayrack can toss the hay up to him, and the air is heated like a furnace by the hot haymaking sun on the shingles close above his head, and his shirt is full of timothy-seed, and he is almost dying with exhaustion, suddenly he hears the sound of rain pattering on the roof. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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