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Meaning of hay wain | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A large open vehicle, drawn by horses, used to carry loads of hay; a haywagon.

obsolete

Equivalents

Suomi heinäkärryt
Italiano carro del fieno

Examples

“By the 1870s in England, toy dappled-grey horses were much in favour, some pulled bright yellow carts with tip-up backs, some pulled coal-trucks, others pulled haywains and dust-carts, all of these being a convenient size for a child to pull along on a string.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

hay-asthma hay-bote hay-cock hay-fever Hay-on-Wye hay-scented fern

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