A group of sheaves of grain placed upright and supporting each other in order to permit the drying and ripening of the grain before carrying. Phrase…

A conical heap of hay, grass, etc.

= shock, n.1 1.

A mound or pile of hay; a haycock. Cf. pook, n.

A conical heap of hay in the field.

A conical heap of unbound barley, oats, or pease, or of straw or hay. (Chiefly in Kent.)

A shock of corn consisting of a number of sheaves set up together in the field.

A heap, spec. (a) a haycock; a roughly assembled heap of hay, oats, barley, or other unsheafed produce, not more than 5 feet high, pitched together…

a small heap or stack of grass that has been cut for hay and left in the field to dry; cf. cock, n.3 haycock, n.

Chiefly English regional (northern and midlands). A group of sheaves of corn placed upright, the tops of which are protected from the rain by two…

A shock (shock, n.1 1) consisting of five or six sheaves of corn.

A small conical heap of hay, grass, etc. Cf. cock, n.3, foot-cock n. at foot, n. int.compounds 3.

A cock of hay.

(see quot. 1848).

A husk, pod, or shell; esp. the outer covering or strippings of Indian corn, chestnuts, hickory nuts, etc. See corn-shuck, n.

English regional and Irish English. A small, conical heap of hay, grass, etc.; a haycock; (also) small haycocks collectively.