haycock
(ˈheɪkɒk)
[f. hay n.1 + cock n.2]
A conical heap of hay in the field.
| c 1470 Harding Chron. clxxiii. ii, Walter Wareyn among the hay kockes bushed. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §25 Toward nyght make it in wyndrowes and than in smal heycockes. 1632 Milton L'Allegro 90 To the tanned haycock in the mead. 1794 S. Williams Vermont 98 Of an oval form, resembling the construction of an haycock. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles xxx. 306 Perched upon a Kent haycock. |