haycock

Example Sentences

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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

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

Now it happened that my way led me near a haycock, and as I neared this haycock I heard voices from the other side of it.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

He was what I expected, a bedraggled vagabond with tear-stains on his dirty cheeks and a vast shock of hair which I well knew would look, in daylight, like a burning haycock.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

Tim Sullivan spoke without humor when he made this correction in the name of his calling, sitting with his back to a haycock, eating his dinner in the sun.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)