haycock

Example Sentences

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She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Two fields away a man in a straw hat was slowly combing down the flanks of a haycock with a wooden rake, while a black and white cur slept in the young after-grass beside him.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

Shure that’s as asy as tumblin’ from a haycock.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

Mountain Billy grazed near me till it occurred to him that stubble was unsatisfactory, when he betook him to my haycock.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.

The top piece of the hill is curiously symmetrical, and resembles a haycock or a thimble.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett