Hay-home. See quotation.

'It was the last day of the hay-harvest—it was "hay-home" that night.'—R. Jefferies, A True Tale of the Wiltshire Labourer.

Hay-making. Grass as it is mown lies in swathe (N. & S.W.); then it is turned (S.W.), preparatory to being tedded (N. & S.W.), or spread; then raked up into lines called hatches (N.W.), which may be either single hatch or double hatch, and are known in some parts as wallows (N.W.); next spread and hatched up again, and put up in small foot-cocks, cocks (N.W.), or pooks (N. & S.W.); finally, after being thrown about again, it is waked up into long wakes (N.W.), or rollers (S.W.), and if not made temporarily into summer-ricks (N.W.), is then carried. No wonder that John Burroughs (Fresh Fields, p. 55) remarks that in England hay 'is usually nearly worn out with handling before they get it into the rick.' Almost every part of the county has its own set of terms. Thus about Warminster meadow-hay is (1) turned, (2) spread or tedded, (3) put in rollers, (4) pooked; while at Clyffe Pypard it is tedded, hatched, waked and cocked, and at Huish waked and pooked. Roller is pronounced as if it rhymed with collar. Hay is 'put in rollers,' or 'rollered up.'

Hazon (a broad). To scold or threaten (A.B.C.H.Wr.). 'Now dwoan't 'ee hazon the child for 't.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

Head. The front upright timber of a gate. See Har and Falling-post.—N.W. (Marlborough; Huish; Clyffe Pypard.)

Headland. (1) adj. Headlong, as to 'fall headland' or 'neck-headland.'—N.W. (2) The strip where the plough turns at bottom and top of a field, which must either be ploughed again at right angles to the rest, or dug over with the spade; generally called the Headlong by labourers in S. Wilts.

Headlong. See Headland.

Heal, Hele. Of seeds, to cover or earth over (D.); Heeld, Yeeld (Great Estate, ch. viii). When the ground is dry and hard, and the wheat when sown does not sink in and get covered up at once, it is said not to heal well, and requires harrowing.—N.W.

Heartless. 'A heartless day' is a wet day with a strong south-west wind.—S.W.