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.