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haying

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The agricultural labor of cutting, drying, and gathering grass for hay; evocative of summer warmth and rustic rhythm in pastoral poetry.

Detailed Definition
This is a farming term for the seasonal process of making hay. In the poem it helps establish the rural labor of Maud’s life and the agricultural setting.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether / The cloud in the west would bring foul weather” ties farm labor to weather watching; Frost’s rural poems often make seasonal work a setting for reflection and conversation; “By haying time, the children knew the smell of cut grass” uses the gerund for harvesting hay; Haying imagery can suggest labor, summer abundance, and the urgency of gathering before rain
Additional Notes
“Haying” is a specific agricultural term, and readers unfamiliar with farm work may need to look it up.; Found in the poem, Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
Also Known As
harvesting reaping gathering mowing
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