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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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 M?rim?e, Prosper
Then I made a great effort, pulled at my trigger, and rolled backwards from my haycock into the spongy swamp, inches deep with water just there.
From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
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
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