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 long, wintry fields before them sloped down to a wide stretch of marshes covered with ice, and dotted here and there with an abandoned haycock.
From The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett
One day she took her tiny rake and began to make a haycock, but before it was done something else interested her, and she dropped the rake.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan
It overlooks a common hayfield, where, under the shade of a haycock, sat two lovers—as constant as ever were found in romance—beneath a spreading bush.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
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