haycock

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).

1. A small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is being cured or awaiting relocation to a haystack or barn.

   “Brother Kempe, as many alhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge: […]”

   “And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead.”