strawstack

noun, a large stack or pile of straw

“Did you ever have pigs in your strawstack?”

“We always had the strawstack as well as the haystack here as the hay-barn was full.”

“He was a bit of a young lad or early teenager, and they finished thrashing up there, and I don’t know if he was told to clean up around the strawstack or not. But anyways, he started cleaning up, and he thought it would be easier cleaned up if it was burnt. So it ended up burning the barn down.”

“The pigs would winter right in that strawstack. I remember Tom’s dad had an old sow pig. She’d go into that strawstack, you couldn’t even see her. She just burrow right in there. And the only time she’d come out would be to get something to eat, eh? She’d come out and get something to eat, and then a real cold day she’d be heading back to the old strawstack squealing like heck ’cause it was so cold, you know!”

“Yeah, the pigs … they’d have little ones right out in the strawstack in the winter.”