(n.) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
(v. i.) To lay snares for rabbits.
(n.) Grass cut and cured for fodder.
(v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.
(2) In 1986, the Fm value from hay was 35% of that from 134CsCl, thus demonstrating the low bioavailability of recently deposited radiocesium.
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) 2, measurements were performed on ground alfalfa hay, alfalfa silage, and bromegrass hay containing 42.6, 35, and 66.4% NDF, respectively.
(5) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(6) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(7) The culture maintained at pH 6.7 contained the types of bacteria often found in high concentration in the rumen, whereas the culture maintained at pH 5.0 had a high percentage of bacteria which could not be identified with the major rumen bacteria found in rumens of animals fed alfalfa hay.
(8) 1 and 2, respectively) with ad libitum access to bermudagrass hay.
(9) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(10) Transit time of hay decreased as ADF intake increased.
(11) After 48 hours the animals were given concentrated fodder, after 52 hours exclusively hay.
(12) The verdict in the Hayes trial suggested that the much-maligned organisation was finally making a mark under Green, just at it stepped up investigations into some the biggest companies in Britain, including Tesco, Rolls-Royce and Barclays.
(13) Ewes were fed a 50:50 mixture of alfalfa and prairie hay ad libitum and either no concentrates (C), .4 kg concentrates .
(14) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(15) Ruminal ammonia, molar percentage butyrate, and blood ketones, plasma urea N, and plasma molar percentage butyrate were lower when hay was fed.
(16) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(17) The relationship between month of birth and asthma, hay fever and skin sensitization to mixed grass pollen was analysed in a population-based cross-sectional study in Munich and Bavaria 1989-1990 of 6535 10-year-old children.
(18) However, milk yield decreased as ADF in hay increased, particularly at 50% concentrate.
(19) Three trials were conducted at the beginning of lactation, with maize silage, grass silage or grass silage and hay based diets.
(20) This male patient was 35 years old at diagnosis and 38 at time of surgery (respectively 1.2 and 2.5% of cases in the Hay series and 1.9% in the Ruiter series), this lesion affecting mainly age groups under 20 years.
Thatching
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thatch
(n.) The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.
(n.) The materials used for this purpose; thatch.
Example Sentences:
(1) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
(2) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(3) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
(4) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
(5) Saudi Arabia bombards us and kills our neighbours.” Gummai Esmail Moshasha’s thatched hut in al-Jah, in the Tihama area of al-Hudaydah, was targeted on 12 January.
(6) At her similarly grass-thatched home on the other side of the road the traditional birth attendant, who now calls herself Sister Josephine, contemplates the wreck of her once-yellow plastic apron and wonders where she will get another.
(7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(8) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
(9) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
(10) Shortly after midnight on Sunday, at least five gunmen arrived at the beach by speedboat and stormed the couple's palm-thatched hut, thought to be the furthest from the hotel's reception.
(11) At last we came to a small hamlet, half-a-dozen thatched mud-walled houses, all closed up for the night.
(12) Water is a critical issue for UNHCR, Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières and other relief groups working in the camp, dotted with white tents and thatched huts among the sparse trees.
(13) A man sits on the ground in the shade of a thatched stall repairing plastic washing-up bowls.
(14) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
(15) Pub stop The Cleave, Lustleigh (01647 277223, thecleavelustleigh.uk.com ), is a thatched village pub with garden and good-quality local food.
(16) Boko Haram violence keeping a million children out of school, says Unicef Read more A rocket-propelled grenade then exploded, setting grass-thatched huts alight, and a second woman blew herself up, Isa said.
(17) The 600 villagers, who live in thatched huts with conical roofs, subsist by growing maize, bananas, cassava, sweet potato and sorghum.
(18) He writes of grand royal processions and firework displays, of a society with many slaves, open-air marketplaces with women vendors, and houses built of bamboo and thatch.
(19) Bio-assay results showed that Folithion was effective on mud for two-and-a-half months, on wood for seven months, and on thatch for six months.
(20) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.