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

They were carried along till it stuck on some young alder trees, when each of them grasped a bough, and the haycock sailed away, leaving them among the weak and brittle branches. 

From The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World by Tomlinson, Charles

It was not unlike a haycock of immense size, with a door in the side, or like the half of a cocoanut turned upside down.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon

Now it happened that my way led me near a haycock, and as I neared this haycock I heard voices from the other side of it.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

Then I made a great effort, pulled at my trigger, and rolled backwards from my haycock into the spongy swamp, inches deep with water just there.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge