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HAYSTACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stack of hay
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("haystack" is a kind of...):
stack (an orderly pile)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haystack"):
haycock (a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick)
Context examples:
It cost me some trouble to find out Salem House; but I found it, and I found a haystack in the corner, and I lay down by it; having first walked round the wall, and looked up at the windows, and seen that all was dark and silent within.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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