Word Meanings - HAYSTACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
Related words: (words related to HAYSTACK)
- STACK
1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were - STACKET
A stockade. Sir W. Scott. - CONICALITY
Conicalness. - STACKAGE
1. Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. 2. A tax on things stacked. Holinshed. - STACKING
from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks. - STACK-GUARD
A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack. - CONICALLY
In the form of a cone. - STACKSTAND
A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand. - CONICALNESS
State or quality of being conical. - STACKYARD
A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith. - LACONIC; LACONICAL
1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or - SMOKESTACK
A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc. - PLANO-CONICAL
Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. Grew. - LACONICALLY
In a laconic manner. - ICONICAL
Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind. - SUBCONICAL
Slightly conical. - LACONICAL
See A - OBCONIC; OBCONICAL
Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical. - UNSTACK
To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack. - CONIC; CONICAL
1. Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel. 2. Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. Conic section - HAYSTACK
A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.