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haye

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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10
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8
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4
Pronunciation
/heɪ/

Definition of haye

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A shark (cartilaginous fish of Selachimorpha).
    “They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles.”
    “Other unlucky accidents oft-times happen in these seas, as, when (especially in becalmings) men swim in the bearing ocean, the greedy Hayen, called Tuberon or Shark, armed with a double row of venomous teeth, pursue them, directed by a little rhombus or musculus, variously streaked and coloured with blue and white, that scuds to and fro to bring the shark intelligence.”
    “They do not fling away the Hays in Spain, but sell them.”
    “There are in the Cape sea two sorts of Sharks. The Cape-Europeans call ‛em Hayes.”
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noun

  1. A shark (cartilaginous fish of Selachimorpha).
    “They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles.”
    “Other unlucky accidents oft-times happen in these seas, as, when (especially in becalmings) men swim in the bearing ocean, the greedy Hayen, called Tuberon or Shark, armed with a double row of venomous teeth, pursue them, directed by a little rhombus or musculus, variously streaked and coloured with blue and white, that scuds to and fro to bring the shark intelligence.”
    “They do not fling away the Hays in Spain, but sell them.”
    “There are in the Cape sea two sorts of Sharks. The Cape-Europeans call ‛em Hayes.”
  2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of hay (“grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder”).
    “14. In marg.—"Jo. Turner." For mowinge and wininge* the haye in Barkholme, xxxj⁸. For mowinge and wininge the haye in Brampton parke, xxxiij⁸. vjᵈ.”
    “Iem, that hee take order with them for husbandlie usage of the haye, and apportionate the provender to be allowed to everye man's charge, according to the number of horses that are in house […]”
    “[…] and he toke the horse and the haye, and lept upon the horse and rode to the gentlemannys place […]”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Dutch haai (“shark”) or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl (“shark”) (a compound of há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) + karl (“a man”)). The German Hai, the Swedish haj and the Danish haj are from the same source.

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