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 top piece of the hill is curiously symmetrical, and resembles a haycock or a thimble.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett

Shure that’s as asy as tumblin’ from a haycock.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

The long, wintry fields before them sloped down to a wide stretch of marshes covered with ice, and dotted here and there with an abandoned haycock.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne