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
Mountain Billy grazed near me till it occurred to him that stubble was unsatisfactory, when he betook him to my haycock.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.
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 Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)
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 Hopkins, William J.
They were carried along till it stuck on some young alder trees, when each of them grasped a bough, and the haycock sailed away, leaving them among the weak and brittle branches.
From The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World by Tomlinson, Charles
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