Definition of "haymaking" [hay•mak•ing]

• The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals (noun)

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• "Just as in corn districts, machinery has not reduced the actual number of hands employed, but has made the work come in spells or rushes; so in the meadows the haymaking is shortened."
• ""Yes, it is very nice, very nice indeed; in fact, I arrived just in time for the haymaking, I must tell you, and in the Ukraine the haymaking is the most poetical moment of the year."
• ""Grass might start growing in a week or two, but there will be no haymaking.""