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Windrow

//ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
  2. 2
    A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
  3. 3
    A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
  4. 4
    A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
  5. 5
    A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.; A ridge or berm at a perimeter broadly
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  1. 6
    A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. Canada
  2. 7
    A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.; A long snowbank along the side of a road. Canada, broadly
  3. 8
    The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. UK
Verb
  1. 1
    To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. transitive

    "This cool spell favored the cane shipped to some extent, for if the weather had remained as warm for three or four days as it was Friday, all the cane that was windrowed after the freeze would have been lost and much of it that was windrowed before the freeze would have met a like fate."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From wind + row.

Etymology 2

From wind + row.

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