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
No, no, Princess," called her governess, "come back and finish the haycock.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Tappan, Eva March
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
One day she took her tiny rake and began to make a haycock, but before it was done something else interested her, and she dropped the rake.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Tappan, Eva March
In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.
From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John
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