But there was no chance of earning more that day, and they had to sleep in the loose hay at the foot of a hay rick, belonging to a distant farm.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
Emilia came round the rick, talking to herself, holding a wooden bowl from which she had been feeding the chickens.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He skirts it for some distance, and then shoots out into the air, comes back half-way, and hangs over the fallow below, where there is a small rick.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies