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Definition: Haycock |
HaycockNoun1. A small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "haycock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Haycock |
| English words defined with "haycock": Hay cap. (references) |
| "Haycock" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Haycock" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 86.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "haycock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Haycock | Last name | 400 | 20,846 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
haycock | 7 |
haycock kati | 3 |
bryan haycock | 3 |
camp haycock | 3 |
haycock stables | 3 |
haycock ken | 3 |
haycock township | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "haycock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Pirg Bari, Kapule (sheaf). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Купа Сено. (various references) | |
Czech | Kupka Sena (haystack). (various references) | |
German | Heuhaufen (haycocks, hayrick, haystack, haystacks). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֻובע". (various references) | |
Hungarian | Szénaboglya (hayrick, haystack, mow). (various references) | |
Italian | Mucchio Di Fieno (hayrick), Meta (aim, boundary, destination, dung, goal, limit). (various references) | |
Manx | ruck (rick). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aycockhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pequena meda de feno. (various references) | |
Russian | Копна Сена, копна сена, копна (stack). (various references) | |
Scottish | gòileag (a haycock). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | košenje i sušenje sena. (various references) | |
Spanish | Montón De Heno (hay cock, hay-cock), almiar (hayrick, haystack, mow, rick, stack). (various references) | |
Swedish | Hövolm (hay cock). (various references) | |
Thai | กองหญ้าแห้งเป็นรูปกรวย. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Копиця Сіна. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đ"ng cỏ khô. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "haycock": haycocks. (additional references) | |
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"Haycock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hayco, Hicock, paycock, Paycocke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "haycock" (pronounced hā"kÄ'k) |
| 3 | -k Ä' k | Peacock, Woodcock. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-k-o-y" | |
-2 letters: acock, chock, choky, coach, cocky. | |
-3 letters: achy, ahoy, caky, chao, chay, coca, hack, hock, hoya, kayo, okay, yack, yock. | |
-4 letters: cay, coy, hao, hay, hoy, kay, koa, oak, oca, oka, yah, yak, yok. | |
-5 letters: ah, ay, ha, ho, ka, oh, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-k-o-y" | |
+1 letter: haycocks. | |
+3 letters: hydrocrack. | |
+4 letters: hydrocracks. | |
+5 letters: hydrocracked, hydrocracker. | |
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