noun
- Also hayrick. Chiefly Midland U.S. a large, usually rectangular stack or pile of hay, straw, corn, or the like, in a field, especially when thatched or covered by a tarpaulin; an outdoor or makeshift mow.
- a stack of cordwood or logs cut to even lengths.
- a frame of horizontal bars and vertical supports, as used to hold barrels in a distillery, boxes in a warehouse, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to form grain into a stack or pile.
- to stack (cordwood) in ricks.
verb (used with or without object), noun
noun
noun
- a large stack of hay, corn, peas, etc, built in the open in a regular-shaped pile, esp one with a thatched top
verb
- (tr) to stack or pile into ricks
noun
- a wrench or sprain, as of the back
verb
- (tr) to wrench or sprain (a joint, a limb, the back, etc)
Old English hreac “stack of hay or straw,” from Proto-Germanic *khraukaz (cf. Old Norse hraukr, Frisian reak, Dutch rook “heap”); perhaps related to ridge.