haystacks

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I remember now that I had turned and was walking slowly back to where our horses stood, moving listlessly through the freshly mowed meadow between drenched haystacks -- the first I had seen that year -- and God alone knows where were my thoughts a-gypsying, when, very far away, I heard a gun-shot.

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  1. noun A large stack of hay, especially as left in a field to dry. Also called hayrick.

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  • The tanks had been expertly camouflaged in haystacks, and the glare from the evening sun added to the effectiveness of their cover. —  Panzer Aces
  • Doc Savage 076 - The Flaming Falcons by Kenneth Robeson Chapter I. THE MYSTERIOUS FARM HOBO JONES was a rather pleasant young man who found it necessary to sleep in haystacks, and this was what really started the whole thing. —  076 - The Flaming Falcons
  • Their huts were shaped like haystacks, and constructed of branches of willow covered with long grass, so as to be warm and comfortable. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • It's easier to find needles in haystacks when the haystacks are sorted by needle count. —  Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
  • They had been weeks of dodging and hiding; travelling by night, trusting to map and compass and the stars; lying by day in woods, in ditches, under haystacks--in any hole or corner that should shelter them in a world that seemed full of cruel eyes looking ceaselessly for them. —  Captain Jim
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