Hay vs Baler - What's the difference?
hay | baler |
(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
* Camden
* C. L. Flint
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
* 1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.
A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
A person who creates bales, either by operating]] or [[feed, feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.
As nouns the difference between hay and baler
is that hay is (uncountable) grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder or hay can be the name of the letter for the h sound in pitman shorthand while baler is a machine for creating bales, eg, of hay or cotton.As a verb hay
is to cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.hay
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
- I would like some of that hay . Enclose $20.
- (Rowe)
- to dance the hay
Derived terms
* hay fever * hayloft, hay loft * haystack * hayward * hit the hay * make hay while the sun shinesExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- (Huloet)
References
Webster's Online Dictionary article on hay
Etymology 2
: From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay'' and ''gay''. The expected form in English if the ''h'' had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", ''h? .Anagrams
* * * ----baler
English
(wikipedia baler)Noun
(en noun)- Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale.
- Hank worked as a baler for Farmer Jones part time, to make ends meet.