Haystack

Definition: Haystack

Haystack

Noun

1. A stack of hay.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "haystack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Haystack

Impossibility

Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire.

Uncertainty

Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.

This isn't a needle in a haystack, this is a needle in Kansas (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

To find a job is like a haystack needle (Living for the City; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Haystack Horace (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hank the Cowdog: The Case of the Haystack Kitties [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Haystack (reference)

• The Adventures of Haystack (reference)

• Under the Haystack (reference)

• Up the Haystack (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Naked City - Button in the Haystack (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Needles- In A Haystack [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach on a misty day. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sea stack on the north side of Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking south at the base of Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking south at Cannon Beach. Haystack Rock is third from right. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

ARS hydrologist Doug Boyer (right) and aide Derek Hall collect water samples from a stream in a West Virginia limestone cave. The calcite formation in the background is The Haystack in McClung's Cave. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Jacks and jennies eating at a haystack while awaiting adoption. Credit: Unknown.

Dirtbike trial and competition on Haystack Mountain, in Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Happel.

Mountain bike riding on Haystack Mountain in Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: Pau Happel.

Proper motocycle safety gear on a rider on a trail on Haystack Mountain OHV Area, Roswell, Field Office New Mexico. Credit: Paul Happel.

OHV trials competition at Haystack Mountain OHV Area, Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Happel.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "haystack": haystack hill ♦ look for a needle in a haystack ♦ look for a needle in haystack. Additional references.

Albanian

mullar bari (hayrick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كومة قش. (various references)

Bulgarian 

купа сено (haymow, hayrick, stack). (various references)

Czech

kupka sena (Haycock). (various references)

Danish

karst bakke (haystack hill, hum, karst tower, mogote, pepino). (various references)

Dutch

opper (heap, pile, stack), hooiberg (hay barn, hay loft, hay mow, hay rick, hay stack). (various references)

Esperanto

fojnamaso. (various references)

Farsi 

کومه علف خشک . (various references)

Finnish

heinäruko (hayrick). (various references)

French

meule de foin (hay mow, hay rick, hay stack). (various references)

German

heuhaufen (Haycock, haycocks, hayrick, haystacks), Heuschober (barn, haystacks). (various references)

Greek 

θημωνιά (hay cock, hay stack, hayrick, shock, stack, stook). (various references)

Hebrew 

ערמת שחת (hayrick, stook). (various references)

Hungarian

szénakazal (haymow, hayrick). (various references)

Italian

pagliaio (haystacks, Rick, straw stack), meta; pagliaio. (various references)

Manx

creagh hraagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

aystackhay.(various references)

Portuguese

palheiro (hayloft, haymow), montãodefeno. (various references)

Romanian

claie de fân, claie (crowd, fleece, hayrick, heap, Rick, shock, snag, stack), cãpiţã (mow, shock, stack). (various references)

Russian 

стог сена (haymow, hayrick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plast (mow, rick, stack). (various references)

Spanish

almiar (haycock, hayrick, mow, rick, stack). (various references)

Swedish

höstack (hayrick, Rick). (various references)

Turkish

sap yığını (hayrick), kuru ot yığını (hayrick, Pike, Rick). (various references)

Ukrainian

стіг сіна (hayrick). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đống cỏ khô (hayrick). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "haystack": haystacks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Haystack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haitinck, Halspach, hausstock, haystacky, Haystock, Hinstock. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: thacks, yachts.

-3 letters: ayahs, casky, chats, chays, hacks, hasty, kasha, katas, khats, kyats, satay, shack, shaky, stack, tachs, tacks, tacky, takas, thack, yacht, yacks.

-4 letters: aahs, achy, acta, acts, ashy, ayah, caky, casa, cash, cask, cast, cats, cays, chat, chay, cyst, hack, hast, hats, hays, kaas, kata, kats, kays, khat, kyat, sack, scat.

-5 letters: aah.

+1 letter: haystacks.