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Hay, Hagh, or Haugh

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A royal park in “which no man commons”; rich pasture-land; as Bilhagh (Billa-haugh), Beskwood- or Bestwood-hay, Lindeby-hay, Welley-hay or Wel-hay. These five hays were “special reserves” of game for royalty alone.

A bottle of hay. (See Bottle.)

Between hay and grass. Too late for one and too soon for the other.

Neither hay nor grass. That hobby-de-hoy state when a youth is neither boy nor man.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Take time by the forelock.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows. (Franklin.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Havock
Havre (France)
Hawk
Hawk and Handsaw
Hawk nor Buzzard (Neither)
Hawker’s News
Hawkubites
Hawse-hole
Hawthorn
Hay, Hagh, or Haugh
Hayston (Frank)
Hayward
Hazazel
Hazel
Hazel-nut
Head
Head Shaved (Get your)
Head and Ears
Head and Shoulders
Head of Cattle