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Webster 1913 Edition

Hayward

Hay′ward

(hā′wẽrd)
,
Noun.
[
Hay
a hedge +
ward
.]
An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hayward

HA'YWARD

,
Noun.
[hay and ward, hedgeward.] A person who keeps the common herd or cattle of a town, and guards hedges or fences. In New England, the hayward is a town officer whose duty it to impound cattle, and particularly swine which are found running at large in the highways, contrary to law.

Definition 2024

Hayward

Hayward

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English

Proper noun

Hayward

  1. A surname​.
  2. A city located in Alameda County county in California, United States.

Noun

Hayward ‎(plural Haywards)

  1. A kiwifruit variety.

hayward

hayward

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English

Noun

hayward ‎(plural haywards)

  1. (obsolete) One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
    • 1877, William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, & George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, p571
      ... it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land ...
    • 1881, The Antiquary, vol III, p255
      The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.
    • 1890, Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, p24
      A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.

Etymology

hay +‎ -ward

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