What's the difference between hayrack and hayrick?
Hayrack
Definition:
(n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
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Hayrick
Definition:
(n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
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(1) During the period of 1959-1985 the activity of the foci of anthrax in Voronezh Province was found to be related to the state of some meteorological factors in the previous year and the number of murine [correction of myomorphous] rodents in hayricks and stacks of straw in early spring of the current year, this relationship being stable and statistically significant.
(2) When voles of the former species penetrate stacks of straw and hayricks, conditions appear for the transfer of the infection to the latter species, M. rossiaemeridionalis.
(3) Higher values were found in those animals with silage pits, hayricks and liquid manure pits nearby.