haymow

Examples

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• Pitching a little p25 hay and parsley into the haymow for my Greek beauties.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He climbed the ladder to the haymow and lay on his belly, looking through the small, high window at his grandparents' house.

  Fiction book (1997)

• "A few handfuls in the haymow, morning and night."

  Fiction book (1993)

• "I remember you tearing around the farm and playing in the haymow."

  Fiction book (2001)

• And we'd deposit the milk in the milkroom and take off for the haymow where we did our exercises, as Max called them.

  Fiction book (1994)

• House, barn, and henhouse all fell under a single roof, so that one could open a door and walk directly from the upstairs bedrooms into the haymow and from there down through a trapdoor into the animal quarters.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Looking down, in the haymow, she'd stopped short, holding her pitchfork just so in front of her, half leaning on it while she willed her heart to slow its pace.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Through the slats of the barn, the purest sunlight stretched in long bars that she drank, sip by sip, while she sat all morning in the shadows of wooden stanchions and the ancient haymow.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The farmer stored the fresh hay in the haymow to keep it dry for the winter.

• During the summer, the kids loved to play hide-and-seek in the haymow of the barn.

Synonyms

B

barn

vshaymow

363 1.0

A large farm building for storing hay or keeping animals

is a part inside that building used specifically for hay storage

H

hayloft

vshaymow

4 5.5

A loft in a barn used to store hay

is the same storage area but called by another term

M

mow

vshaymow

• Archaic

4 9.9

An upper space in a barn where hay is kept

is limited to hay storage rather than also storing grain

How Big

barn

363 1.0

haymow

9.9

stall

83 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology