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A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit. Rowe. To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. Shak.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

The European spotted flycatcher.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.

A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

A loft or scaffold for hay.

One who cuts and cures hay.

The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.

A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

A stalk of hay.

Hawthorn. R. Scot.

Of pertaining to Hayti. -- n.

An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

ina (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.