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haycock

haycock

9.9
A small cone of hay left in a field to dry before being collected
  • noun
  • /ˈheɪˌkɒk/
translation icon : montón de heno
  • After the harvest, the workers left small haycocks to dry in the sun before collecting them.

Examples

  • We saw several haycocks along the road, indicating where the hay had been dried in the field.

  • Arthur comes home, and as he's going upstairs, he meets Daphne Haycock, who has come to return his lighter.

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  • The farmer carefully stacked the last of the hay into a haycock before the rain started.

How Big

barn
363 1.0
haystack
43 1.6
haycock
9.9
clump
39 3.0

Surface Forms

haycock singular
haycocks plural

Morphology

haycock = hay + cock (semi-transparent) = hay + cock

The components literally yield 'pile of hay', but the sense of 'cock' as 'small heap' is somewhat archaic and domain-specific, so learners may not reliably infer the meaning.

Etymology

The word haycock comes from the old English parts hay and cock, where cock once meant a small 'pile' or 'heap', much like a little haystack. So a haycock is simply a small, cone-shaped pile of hay left in the field to dry.