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Haymow

noun

A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation.

A loft in a barn where hay is stored. Synonyms: hayloft, mow.

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"Haymow" Quotes from Famous Books

... be the barn and the haymow," answered Harriet. "And now here's Mr. Gray's. You'd better wait out here for me and not try to ...

— Sunny Boy in the Country • Ramy Allison White

... stick. His oratory is like the scream 140 Of the iron-horse's frenzied steam Which warns the world to leave wide space For the black engine's swerveless race. Ye men with neckcloths white, I warn you— Habet a whole haymow in cornu. ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... to become almost a part of life; and the man, unless he be one of great force of character, or one most knowing and scientific, must yield eventually to the stress of close conditions. Time came when John Appleman yielded, and carried whisky home in a gallon jug and hid it in the haymow. ...

— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... 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 ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... Salem in the middle of the night and went into Rutledge's barn and lay down on the haymow between two buffalo ...

— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

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