haysel
(ˈheɪsəl)
[f. hay n.1 + ME. sele season.]
The hay season. (Proper to East Anglia.)
| [1674–5 Watertown (Mass.) Rec. 9 Mar. (1894), The town agreed to alow him for his salary 30 pounds and A fortnites time in hay-sill [printed hay fill].] a 1825 in Forby Voc. E. Anglia. 1865 Times 14 Feb. [Lett. fr. Suffolk] Only at certain times—as in haysel and harvest. 1869 Gd. Words Mar. Suppl. 5 It was glorious weather for haysel. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. (1884) 240 In the period between ‘haysel’ (hay-harvest) and November. |