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
Mackenzie sat with his back to a haycock thinking in this vein.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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
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
I am innocent of having ever endangered the life of a haycock.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant
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