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n. - A loft in a barn where hay is stored; A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation.

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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.
  • "You might as well look for a needle in a haymow."
  • I climbed the ladder in the barn right up to the haymow.
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