Crossword clues for haycock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haycock \Hay"cock`\ (h[=a]"k[o^]k`), n. A conical pile or heap of hay in the field.
The tanned haycock in the mead.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. A small, conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack
WordNet
n. a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick
Wikipedia
Haycock may refer to:
Haycock is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It rises between Scoat Fell and Caw Fell to the south of Ennerdale and the north of Wasdale. Haycock is an imposing dome-shaped fell, its popularity with walkers diminished somewhat by its remoteness. It can be climbed from either valley and offers fine mountain views.
Haycock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Haycock (1882–1970), British politician
- D. Arthur Haycock (1916–1994), American secretary with the LDS Church
- David Boyd Haycock (born 1968), British writer
- Fred Haycock (1886–1955), English footballer
- Joseph Longford Haycock (1850–1937), Canadian farmer and politician
- Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963), Welsh poet
- Obed Crosby Haycock (1901–1983), American scientist
- Pete Haycock (born 1951), English musician
Usage examples of "haycock".
We understood now that the haycock formations were the result of pressure, and that crevasses were always found in their neighbourhood.
The dome turned out to be one of the small haycock formations that we had seen before in this district.
In the haycock district the disturbance had not produced cracks in the surface to any extent, only upheaval here and there.
Just outside the tent door, two feet away, stood a fine little haycock, that looked as if it would serve the purpose well.
The material provided by the haycock was of the best quality, and well adapted for cooking purposes.
The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock, lying one mile to the westward of the village of Withyham, upon the Kent and Sussex border.
They could name them--Skiddaw and Saddleback, Helvellyn and Fairfield, Langdale Pike and the Gavel, Seatallan and Haycock, and through that circle of grey listening hills they could see the trumpeters moving.
Why, this one would take enough alfalfa at the present price a ton to bury your store under a haycock as high as the Roman Pantheon!
He used them on the market-day journeyings, and on summer nights, when the sea wind came sweetly from the broad Firth and the two slept, like vagabonds, on a haycock under the stars.
In the mercantile, where they went to buy new haycock covers, Abner and Mrs.
She poked her head forward, with its thatch of dark hair piled up like a grizzled haycock, turned lack-lustre eyes on Abel, on Katharine, on William, and came into the room and up to the table.
For the moment the last angry Bumblebee had disappeared inside it Johnnie Green stole quickly up from behind a haycock and slipped the cork into the mouth of the jug.
Soon he set the jug behind the sheltering haycock and sat down beside it to make further plans.
This stretch of ice was -- with the exception of a few quite small hummocks of the shape of haycocks -- perfectly flat and free from crevasses.
How these haycocks were formed and what they looked like inside we were soon to find out.