haystackn.
/ˈheɪstak/, U.S. /ˈheɪˌstæk/ A stack or large pile of hay built in the open air, of regular form and finished off with a pointed or ridged top. to look for a needle in a haystack: see needle n. 1d.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick
moweOE
rickeOE
pease-ricka1325
stackc1330
tassc1330
rucka1382
hayrick14..
haystack14..
sedge reekc1440
hay-mow1483
hay-goaf1570
rack1574
hovel1591
scroo1604
mow-stack1611
sow1659
corn-rick1669
bean-rick1677
barley-mow1714
pea rick1766
rickle1768
bike1771
stacklet1796
bean-stack1828
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 725/32 Hic arconius, a haystak.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351v The myddlemost is lyke a heye stacke.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 73/1 A Hay Stack is..shaped broad at the bottom and narrow at the top.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 34 If these rats meet a haystack, they eat their way through it.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as haystack roof.
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1855 F. Chamier My Trav. I. iii. 42 A large white house, with a kind of haystack red roof.
C2.
haystack boiler n. an old tall form of steam-boiler somewhat like a haystack in shape.
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