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

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)

The blue sky above us is bright and serene, No cloud on its bosom remains; The woods and the fields and the hedges are green, And the haycock smells sweet from the plains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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.)

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