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 hut was a structure made of poles and a thatch of brush and grass that was of about the shape of a Yankee haycock, and only a little larger.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.

He was what I expected, a bedraggled vagabond with tear-stains on his dirty cheeks and a vast shock of hair which I well knew would look, in daylight, like a burning haycock.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

He jumped up with the agility of a deer, and stood ten paces distant from the haycock, which the soldiers at once began to upset.

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

Riding Mountain Billy out into the meadow, I dismounted, and settled myself comfortably against a haycock with the bridle over my arm.

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