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

The haycock he built was about the size of a bucket—I have since seen them as large as bushel baskets.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

No, no, Princess," called her governess, "come back and finish the haycock.

From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Tappan, Eva March

In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

Yes; Gianetto was concealed in your haycock there, but my little cousin showed me his trick.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper