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Hayer

adv, name, noun

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Adverb

1
Pronunciation spelling of here. alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
"1896, Author not recorded, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless, Edna Chaffee Noble (compiler), Jacob W. Shoemaker (series editor), Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Number 20, The Penn Publishing Company, page 176, "Please, God A'mighty—ef ye kin hear me 'way out hayer in the rocks en' lonesomeness—don't take away my pore boy. […] I bin a-workin' hard to feed en' keep 'im; en' please, God A'mighty, don't leave me hayer all alone.""

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
"[…] the men do the mowing, the women the raking, and with the exception of two villages, the men carry the hay on their backs and load the hay sleds and wagons. Children help with the raking, and carry hot meals from home to the hayers."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hay + -er.

Etymology 2

Various etymologies: * A variant of the English surname Ayer. * A topographic surname for someone who lived by an enclosure, from Middle English hay (“enclosure, hedge”) + -er. * Borrowed from French Hayer, an occupational surname for a warder of a woodland, from Old French haye (“hedge”). * Borrowed from South German Hayer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German heien (“to guard, protect”). * Borrowed from Punjabi ਹਾਈਯਰ (hāīyar), surname based on the name of a Jat clan.

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