Meaning & use
hay
Grass or similar plants that have been cut and dried for use as animal feed.
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The farmer stacked bales of hay in the barn before winter arrived.
Horses in the paddock were munching on fresh hay from the trough.
A note on using this word
Hay (dried grass) is often confused with straw (dried stalks left after grain harvest); the two are not the same material.
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