Definition of "haymow" [hay•mow]

• See hayloft. (noun)
• The hay stored in a hayloft. (noun)
• Archaic A haystack. (noun)

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• "The haymow was a big place in the barn where the dried grass (which is what hay is, you know) was stored away."
• "The haymow was a robbers 'cave wherein great wealth of booty was stored; the garden, a desert island on which lived the poor castaway."
• "The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams."