hay camp†

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a camp, often temporary, where hay is cut and stacked for cattle feed.

Quotations

1934

. . . soon after dinner we stopped at the main base there, the government hay camp, a collection of buildings in a wide clearing.

1962

[He was] no other than the ornery boy he had known so well in the Old Man's hay camp.