haycock
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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.
When he was gone, my father called me to him, and we sat down beneath the elm, on a haycock.
From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles
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.
Fortunato raised his left hand at the same time, and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder to the haycock against which he was leaning.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper
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