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a self-heating fortress of grass that occasionally bursts into flames out of sheer enthusiasm
means A large pile of hay stacked and stored outdoors, usually as feed for livestock or to keep the hay dry.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words. "Hay" comes from Old English "hīeg," meaning grass mown for fodder, tied to a root meaning "that which is cut." "Stack" arrived later from Old Norse "stakkr," meaning a heap or pile — a gift from Scandinavian settlers in England. So the word is literally "cut-grass pile," honest farm English doing exactly what it says.
- spontaneous combustion
- damp hay ferments, overheats, ignites without any spark
- monet obsessed
- painted 25 haystacks to chase shifting light
- needle proverb
- the impossible-search metaphor predates the year 1500
- core temperature
- interiors can exceed 170 degrees fahrenheit
- weather thatch
- shaped peaks shed rain to protect the harvest
needle in a haystack — idiom meaning an extremely difficult thing to find, popularized by john needham's 1713 writings
operation haystack — nsa mass surveillance program revealed by edward snowden in 2013