hayband

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hay +‎ band

Noun[edit]

hayband (plural haybands)

  1. A crude rope made from hay.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      [T]he Pontypool family had come down upon the property, which was being nailed into boxes, and packed into hampers, and swaddled up with haybands, and buried in straw, and locked under three keys in green baize plate-chests, and carted away []