What is "haymow"

Usage examples of "haymow".

From the way he fell, dead weight, a falling ingot or a sack of meal dropped from the haymow that shudders the barn and bursts its own seams, Prew knew.

Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.

While she set the children to drinking milk, Council got out his lantern and went out to the barn to help the stranger about his team, where his loud, hearty voice could be heard as it came and went between the haymow and the stalls.

The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams.

I mean, say a tramp sneaks in there to sleep and he lights a cigarette up in the haymow and sets fire to the hay.

There were three loads, and the last one was safely stowed in the haymow before the little old lady in the house had stirred up her breakfast cake.

You are not my chaperone and I am not some thirteen-year-old waiting for the chance to sneak off for a roll in the haymow with the boy from two farms over.

The lantern threw a giant shadow behind him, blotching the far side of the almost empty haymow, and yet there was no need of shadows to exaggerate the size of those wide shoulders.

A stocky man slipped down from the haymow above, not bothering to pick dried grass from his strawlike hair.

Regan looked up, wondering what kind of man had a name like Kid Chaos and hung out in haymows, ready to shoot someone.

She always hid them in the haymows, and hunting and finding them brought us no end of excitement and pleasure.

Royal and Almanzo were not allowed to take a lantern into the haymows, for fear of fire.

The haymows were warm with the warmth of all the stock below, and the hay smelled dusty-sweet.

This was a good old barn, smelling still of horses, and it carried me back to my childhood so powerfully that I climbed the ladder into the haymow, and discovered that I am either less nimble than I was as a child, or that the ladders leading to haymows are frailer.

He has a good deal more difficulty coaxing the young women into the haymows than he had when he spoke like anybody else .