haycock

plural haycocks · alternative hay-cock

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 Brother Cutbert Curry-knaue Sendeth Greeting.”, in An Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […], [London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press], →OCLC, signature A2, recto

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   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

   [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: hayshock

plural Haycocks · alternative Heacock

1. A surname.