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Word Meanings - HAYSTACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

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  • 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.

 

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