haysel

Albeit, the haysel will wait no longer for us, and the day after tomorrow we must fall to on it.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Sore was her longing to go see her friend in the wood, but the haysel lasted more than a week, and when that was done, whether it were of set purpose or no, the dame forgat her other promise, to give Birdalone more holiday, and kept her close to her work about meadow and acre.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Where the haysel was hoarded with sword-edge & shield.

The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

Now she looked along the grass that glittered under the beams of the newly-risen sun, and noted belike how heavy the dew lay on it; and the grass was high already, for the spring had been hot, and haysel would be early in the Dale.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

And 'twixt haysel and harvest 'tis time to be blithe.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

'True is that,' said Red-beard of the Knolls, 'but look you, Folk - might, we be but simple husbandmen, and may not often stir from our meadows and acres; even now I bethink me that May is amidst us, and I am beginning to be drawn by the thought of the haysel.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

Now therefore shall they and I together earn the merry days to come, the winter hunting and the spring sowing, the summer haysel, the ingathering of harvest, the happy rest of midwinter, and Yuletide with the memory of the Fathers, wedded to the hope of the days to be.

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

To-morrow beginneth the haysel, as if every carle were here;

The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865