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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

... a weasel!" she exclaimed. And since he didn't reply, and she had learned to be mortally afraid of weasels, she ran off squawking, to hide high up in the haymow ...

— The Tale of Old Dog Spot • Arthur Scott Bailey

... brush him as he walked in the path that was wide enough only for one. His solitude was peopled again when he fed the cattle, for Rose's face smiled at him from the haymow; and when he strained the ...

— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... track I went, and at night hired out to a truck-farmer, with the freedom of his haymow for my sleeping quarters. But when I had hoed cucumbers three days in a scorching sun, till my back ached as if it were going to break, and the farmer guessed that he would call it square for three shillings, I went farther. A man is not necessarily a philanthropist, it seems, ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... a year later when an unexpected thing happened. Creed had come out here to the barn to lock up—he always did that himself—when he noticed something unusual about the haymow—this haymow—which stood then about six feet above the barn floor. He looked closer through the dusk, and saw a pair of boots; went nearer, and found that they were fitted to a pair of human legs whose owner was sound asleep ...

— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough