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hay-mow|ˈheɪmaʊ|
Also 5 -moghte, 7 -mough.
[f. hay n.1]
A rick or stack of hay; in some places applied to the pile of hay stored in a hay-house or barn, or to the compartment of a barn in which hay is stored.
1483Cath. Angl. 170/1 An Hay moghte, arconius. 1530Palsgr. 230/1 Heymowe, tas de foyn. 1620Shelton Quix. (1746) III. iv. 26 The poor Fellow thinks belike that we sleep here in a Hay-mow. 1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §77 Which I have tried..in a Barn, from one end to the other, on an Hay-mow. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 13 A little white short-leg'd Spider (which you shall find..in a sweating Hey-mough). 1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1883) 198 Fields of grass beyond, where stand the hay-mows of last year. 1864Bowen Logic ix. 303 Our inability to find a needle in a hay-mow is no proof that the needle is not there. 1888E. Eggleston Graysons 182 The hay-mow at the other end of the floor was full of men and boys. |