A large outdoor stack or pile of hay, built and secured for storage during winter or between seasons.
From 'hay' + 'rick' (from Old English 'hreac,' meaning a heap or mound). A hayrick is essentially a natural building made entirely of dried grass.
Medieval and colonial hayricks were architectural marvels—built with slight slopes and thatched tops to shed water, they could survive entire winters outdoors and were designed so skillfully that some lasted years in the field.
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