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
No, no, Princess," called her governess, "come back and finish the haycock.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan
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 Charles Tomlinson
The top piece of the hill is curiously symmetrical, and resembles a haycock or a thimble.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith
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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