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 haycock he built was about the size of a bucket—I have since seen them as large as bushel baskets.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

The blue sky above us is bright and serene, No cloud on its bosom remains; The woods and the fields and the hedges are green, And the haycock smells sweet from the plains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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.

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 Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)