Haystack
['heɪstæk] or ['hestæk]
Definition
(n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- This creature has scared at every thing he has seen to-day, except a haystack. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak, who looked in the dark more like a haystack than a lady, she was wrapped up to such a degree. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A ladder was brought, and I got down after the lady, who was like a haystack: not daring to stir, until her basket was removed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This was, to lie behind the wall at the back of my old school, in a corner where there used to be a haystack. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Houses, gates, churches, haystacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Many solitary figures he perceives creeping through the streets; many solitary figures out on heaths, and roads, and lying under haystacks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Inputed by Kari