haycock

Example Sentences

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One cow needs 16 haycocks, of a size that can be hauled by a single horse, to feed it through the winter.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2016

And now it was easy to perceive that his pace was diminishing, as he ran in and out among the haycocks; soon he must be completely surrounded.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

No other human being was in sight, nothing but the old shady village, floating into overflowing green, the sleepy haycocks, the empty barn, the heaping ivy on the wall, the sunlight slanting upon the silence.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

They are shaped like haycocks, and consist of a framework of tough ribs covered with black felt.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

The rocks were, as yesterday, many conic-formed, and others rounded or appearing in ranges, like huge haycocks: granite, sandstone, and trachite.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James