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haycock

noun

Etymology

From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).

  1. inherited from haycok

Definitions

  1. A small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is…

    A small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is being cured or awaiting relocation to a haystack or barn.

    • Brother Kempe, as many alhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge: […]
    • [T]hey perceived lying closely concealed beneath the thick foliage of a Haycock, a beautifull little Girl not more than 3 months old.
    • And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

  2. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA