haycock
haycock noun: 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.
Noun
haycock (plural haycocks)
- 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...
- And then in haste her bow'r she leaves,
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves;
Or if the earlier season lead
To the tann'd haycock in the mead.1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- Synonyms:
- hayshock
Proper noun capitalized: Haycock
Haycock (plural Haycocks)
- A surname.
Examples of haycock in a sentence
- [T]hey perceived lying closely concealed beneath the thick foliage of a Haycock, a beautifull little Girl not more than 3 months old.[c. 1788–1789], [Jane Austen], “Henry and Eliza: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 87:
- 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.1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:
Synonyms of haycock
Forms of haycock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | haycocks |
| alternative form | hay-cock |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Haycocks |
| alternative form | Heacock |
Origin of haycock
From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).
Questions about haycock
- What does haycock mean?
- Haycock means 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.
- How do you use haycock in a sentence?
- [T]hey perceived lying closely concealed beneath the thick foliage of a Haycock, a beautifull little Girl not more than 3 months old.
- What part of speech is haycock?
- Haycock can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of haycock?
- The plural of haycock is haycocks.
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