haycock
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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
The haycock he built was about the size of a bucket—I have since seen them as large as bushel baskets.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock
Then they went along to the next haycock and pitched that in the same way, and little John raked after, raking up the hay that had dropped from the pitchforks.
From The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William J. Hopkins
Fortunato raised his left hand at the same time, and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder to the haycock against which he was leaning.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
"How different," he exclaims, but in more flowery terms, "is a haycock in a field with girls rolling down it!"
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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