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hay
dried green grass (meadow hay) or cereal crop (wheat, oats or barley hay) or legume crop (lucerne, alfalfa) used as feed for housed animals in the winter time and for supplementary feeding of pastured animals when there is need.

hay itch
see glycyphagusdestructor.
hay net
a wide-mesh string net to be filled, and hung in a loose box, to provide day-long nibbling for a confined horse.


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You might not be used to eating breakfast, exercising or hitting the hay early; but you''ll soon realize how refreshing your days will be after practicing them.
Also, remember to turn off the lantern before hitting the hay or else you might wake up to find you don''t have any power left for the rest of your trip.
The New York's Museum of Natural History had extended to me and my family--along with a few hundred other members of the media--an invitation to the premiere of the action-comedy starring Ben Stiller as the naive night watchman who's in for a big surprise when he reports to his new job; afterwards, we'd set up camp under the famous whale and, a la Stiller, spend a night poking around the premises with flashlights before finally hitting the hay.
 
 
 
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