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Definition of Haystack

1. Noun. A stack of hay.

Definition of Haystack

1. n. A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

Definition of Haystack

1. Noun. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haystack

1. a pile of hay [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haystack

Literary usage of Haystack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"THE haystack IN THE FLOODS. HAD she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss ? Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain That her own eyes might ..."

2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... (pepino) /ii'll* A characteristic view, showing the small soil-covered flats and associated haystack hills found in the region ot the Arecibo formation. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"A NIGHT IN A haystack; OR, A TRIAL FOR THE DERBY. ... of that haystack (it must have been "got" after oceans of rain) where I lay ensconced in an ecstasy of ..."

4. The Absolute Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements: Established Upon the by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (1901)
"Since the solitary needle in the haystack covering a globe a thousand times the radius of our earth, was found to represent the one chance that we are wrong ..."

5. A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed by Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"THE haystack IN THE FLOODS Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain That her own eyes might ..."

6. Islam, a Challenge to Faith: Studies on the Mohammedan Religion and the by Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1907)
"When Samuel J. Mills and his associates met under the shelter of the haystack one hundred years ago, they were not unmindful of the difficulties of ..."

7. One Hundred Narrative Poems edited by George E. Teter (1918)
"THE haystack IN THE FLOODS WILLIAM MORRIS Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain That her ..."

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