windrow

[ wind-roh, win- ]

noun

1. a row or line of hay raked together to dry before being raked into heaps.
2. any similar row, as of sheaves of grain, made for the purpose of drying.
3. a row of dry leaves, dust, etc., swept together by the wind.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in a windrow.

windrow

/ ˈwɪndˌrəʊ; ˈwɪnˌrəʊ /

noun

1. a long low ridge or line of hay or a similar crop, designed to achieve the best conditions for drying or curing
2. a line of leaves, snow, dust, etc, swept together by the wind

verb

1. tr to put (hay or a similar crop) into windrows

Derived Forms

• ˈwindˌrower, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of windrow¹

First recorded in 1515–25; wind ¹ + row ¹

Example Sentences

She crawled through wrack and weed, over jagged stones, and fell exhausted on a sodden windrow of drift.

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Pull up the turnips, top and tail them, then throw them in a sort of windrow, and let them lie a few days to dry.

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Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.

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Each row is termed a “windrow,” the passage of the wind through the hay greatly aiding the drying and “making” thereof.

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He hopped from bough to bough of the great windrow, and nearly always he sang.

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