hay

verb, make hay (COD); see also haying

“We’re into haying. I’m haying right now. I was cutting hay about five minutes ago, and I will when I leave here again. And we’re enjoying it. It’s a good way to make a living.”

“You could tell them about us, all the way we had to hay in those days, eh.”

“We hayed the whole island, I guess, on Simcoe from the day you were out of school ’til the day you went back.”

“In the summer we had to, of course, help hay. And the old-fashioned raking with the old rake and the hay loader and stuff like that.”

“See, he used to help us hay.”

“We might have helped hay.”

“It was a great thing, these hay loaders, because they picked it up, put it up on the wagon for you. You’d pitch it on forkful at a time, and then you had to pitch it off again. Yeah, that was the job all summer. We were haying.”

“We were haying right out here, and something broke on the front of the wagon, the gallus. He fell down and hit his arm on the tongue and broke his arm.”

“We never hayed there. We pastured at Long Point. Ah, early in the spring and late in the fall, but there were no roads on it, so if you want to go to the back, you had to walk.”