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English
Etymology 1
From hay + -er.
Noun
hayer (plural hayers)
- One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
1989, William A. Christian, Person and God in a Spanish Valley, page 31:[…] 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 2
Adverb
hayer (not comparable)
- Pronunciation spelling of here.
- 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."