English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English hey-tyme; equivalent to hay +‎ time.

Noun edit

haytime (countable and uncountable, plural haytimes)

  1. The season in which hay is cut.
    Synonym: haying time
    • 1892, Charlotte Mary Yonge, An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village, page 146:
      These early haytimes belong to our Southern counties.