Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A conical mound of hay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A. small conical pile or heap of hay thrown up in a hay-field while the hay is being cured or is awaiting removal to a barn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A conical pile or heap of hay in the field.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small, conical stack of
hay left in a field to dry before adding to ahaystack
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick
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Examples
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So he took some strong ropes with him, led out the white mare, and rode on her back to the haycock, but found that the so-called haycock contained at least fifty loads.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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Head held high, she goes across the yard, around the pond, over the haycock.
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The first tract we had passed, where the confusion was so extreme, must be the part that lay nearest the bare land; in proportion as the glacier left the land, it became less disturbed: In the haycock district the disturbance had not produced cracks in the surface to any extent, only upheaval here and there.
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Just outside the tent door, two feet away, stood a fine little haycock, that looked as if it would serve the purpose well.
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We understood now that the haycock formations were the result of pressure, and that crevasses were always found in their neighbourhood.
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Great lines of hummocks and haycock-shaped pieces of ice came in view on every side; we could see that we should have to keep our eyes open.
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The dome turned out to be one of the small haycock formations that we had seen before in this district.
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The material provided by the haycock was of the best quality, and well adapted for cooking purposes.
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