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

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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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