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HAYMAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does haymaking mean?
• HAYMAKING (noun)
The noun HAYMAKING has 2 senses:
1. taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
2. cutting grass and curing it to make hay
Familiarity information: HAYMAKING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("haymaking" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cutting grass and curing it to make hay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("haymaking" is a kind of...):
labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))
Context examples
Jo talks about the country where we hope to live sometime—the real country, she means, with pigs and chickens and haymaking.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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