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

Mountain Billy grazed near me till it occurred to him that stubble was unsatisfactory, when he betook him to my haycock.

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

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

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

The little haycock houses of musk-rats offer the trapper easy prey when frost freezes the sloughs, shutting off retreat below, and heavy snow-fall has not yet hidden the little creatures' winter home.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Then they went along to the next haycock and pitched that in the same way, and little John raked after, raking up the hay that had dropped from the pitchforks.

From The Sandman: His Farm Stories by Hopkins, William J.