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
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No, no, Princess," called her governess, "come back and finish the haycock.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan
Tim Sullivan spoke without humor when he made this correction in the name of his calling, sitting with his back to a haycock, eating his dinner in the sun.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
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
I am innocent of having ever endangered the life of a haycock.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen