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Hay, n. Also: haye, hey. [ME. hay, hey, ON. hey (OE. héᵹ, híeᵹ).] Hay. 1375 Barb. x. 152.
Offtsys hay to the peile led he a1400 Leg. S. xxv. 675.
For his bred he send hym hay c1420 Wynt. iv. 2661.
His bestys twa … He band wp, and gawe thame hay 1456 Hay I. 262/31.
Stakkis of corne or hay 1477 Edinb. Chart. 140.
The merket of haye, stra, gers and hors mete 1507–8 Treas. Acc. IV. 103.
To the curait of Erth for … hay … the Kingis bors eit 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 95.
With our hay ledyng in ȝeirlie 1644 Buccleuch Mun. II. 358.
All these who hes hey, corne, and strae 1657 Hay Diary 93.
I was … advysed to maw the hey the next week

b. Attrib. and comb. with hill, hous, raik, stak, ȝard; rucker. 1483 Acta Aud. *113/2.
For the spoliacion of a hay stak 1508 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 118.
At thai bewar with thair candill in thair hay hous 1508 Treas. Acc. IV. 134.
For ... mending of the hay yard and yett thairof 1532 M. Wks. Acc. II. 69.
For doun takin of the auld hay ȝard 1618 Reg. Great S. 133/2.
Cum libertate fenum ibi metendi et ad lie hayhill transportandi 1625 Ib. 300/2.
In regis lie hay-housis 1676 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 219.
The hay raik that was wpon the kar 1693 Foulis Acc. Bk. 158.
To pay a quart eall to the hay ruckers