hayrick

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He sleeps alternately in mosques, hayricks and grand estates, and meets wealthy barons and humble peasants in homespun clothing. 

From New York Times

Imagine a gigantic farmyard of three-quarters of a mile long by nearly half a mile wide, and containing above 300 hayricks, in a blaze; and the effect of burning Magdala may be readily conceived.

From Project Gutenberg

Half an hour's walk across the fields brought him to a hayrick something less than a mile from the spot.

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The ballroom had been turned into a fine landscape, with scenes representing fields and pastures, with flowing brooks near by, and farmhouses, windmills, and hayricks in the distance.

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The widow Southworth then visited her again, took her out of bed, and placed her upon the top of a hayrick, three or four yards from the ground.

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