haycock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of haycock
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at hay, cock 3
Vocabulary lists containing 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
It overlooks a common hayfield, where, under the shade of a haycock, sat two lovers—as constant as ever were found in romance—beneath a spreading bush.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
Shure that’s as asy as tumblin’ from a haycock.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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 John R. Spears
The little haycock houses of musk-rats offer the trapper easy prey when frost freezes the sloughs, shutting off retreat below, and heavy snow-fall has not yet hidden the little creatures' winter home.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
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