My first word is dried harvest grass given to farm animals, and my second word is a tall pile. Searching inside me for a needle is a test of ultimate patience. What am I?
A haystack
'Hay' (harvest grass) + 'stack' (pile) forms 'haystack', famous in the idiom 'needle in a haystack'.
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