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Haymaking

noun

Taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts.

Cutting grass and curing it to make hay.

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Etymology of 'Haymaking'

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"Haymaking" Quotes from Famous Books

... said the first swallow, "that the other call is not for us too, in its due season? The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds, of browsing cattle, of haymaking, and all the farm-buildings clustering round the House ...

— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame

... yellow carpet in many meadows so that they were Fields of the Cloth of Gold, and clumps of red clover grew like flowers of blood. The hedges about the villages of Picardy were white with elderflower and drenched with scent. It was haymaking time and French women and children were tossing the hay on wooden pitchforks during hot days which came between heavy rains. Our men were marching through that beauty, and were conscious of it, I think, and ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... haymaking began he was everywhere in request, and entered with much energy into the work of the harvest. Early and late he was out with the mowers, and, at a push, with his strong shoulders and brawny arms could use the scythe as well as any of the men. The ...

— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine

... plundered. Only too often the rogues are in direct league with the worst offenders in London. Whitechapel supplies a large contingent of the Kentish hop-pickers, and the 'traveller' who is ostensibly in search of a haymaking or hopping job is, as often as not, spying out the land, and planning profitable burglaries to be carried out in winter with the aid ...

— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith

Words linked to "Haymaking" : toil, labour, labor, accomplishment, achievement