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
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The hut was a structure made of poles and a thatch of brush and grass that was of about the shape of a Yankee haycock, and only a little larger.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
I am innocent of having ever endangered the life of a haycock.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
This little haycock exhaled a penetrating fragrance, the essence of forest, grass, and sunshine, which the mare sniffed at longingly.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
He jumped up with the agility of a deer, and stood ten paces distant from the haycock, which the soldiers at once began to upset.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
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