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WINDROW
Etymology
Noun
windrow (plural windrows)
A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
(Canadian) A line of snow or gravel left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s or grader’s blade.
(UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
Verb
windrow (third-person singular simple present windrows, present participle windrowing, simple past and past participle windrowed)
(transitive) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
Source: Wiktionary
Wind"row`, n. Etym: [Wind + row.]
1. A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
2. Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. [Eng.]
3. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]
Wind"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Windrowing.]
Definition: To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. Forby.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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