If you say that someone is making hay or is making hay while the sun shines, you mean that they are taking advantage of a situation that is favourable to them while they have the chance to. We knew that war was coming, and were determined to make hay while we could. American public official and writer who served as ambassador to Great Britain (1897-1898) and U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905). His literary works include poetry and a life of Abraham Lincoln (1890). In agriculture, dried grasses and other foliage used as animal feed. Typical hay crops are timothy, alfalfa, and clover. Usually the material is cut in the field while still green and then either dried in the field or mechanically dried by forced hot air. Balers compress hay into tightly packed rectangular or cylindrical bales tied with wire or twine. Loose hay may also be "vacuumed" off the field and then blown into stacks in a barn or other storage facility. Properly cured hay with 20% or less moisture may be stored for months without danger of spoilage. hay fever Hay John Milton Whitney John Hay Sulzberger Arthur Hays Hays Office
salt-meadow cordgrass, or salt hay, Spartina patens; a wetland grass typical of high salt marsh communities, tolerant of infrequent (a few times per month) flooding by brackish tides
Entire hergbage of forage plants, sometimes including seed of grasses and legumes, that is harvested and dried for feed