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hay-cock

hay-cock is the alternative spelling of haycock.

Meaning of haycock

Noun

haycock (plural haycocks)

  1. 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: […][1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym; Thomas Nashe], “To that Most Comicall and Conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Iestmonger and Vice-gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton. His Louing...
    Synonyms:
    hayshock

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Forms of hay-cock

pluralhay-cocks

Questions about hay-cock

What is hay-cock the alternative spelling of?
Hay-cock is the alternative spelling of haycock.

Words near hay-cock in the dictionary

  1. hay wains
  2. Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham
  3. hay-asthma
  4. hay-bote
  5. hay-botes
  6. hay-cock
  7. hay-cocks
  8. hay-day
  9. hay-days
  10. hay-fever
  11. Hay-on-Wye

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