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windrow
/ ˈwɪndˌrəʊ; ˈwɪnˌrəʊ /
noun
- a long low ridge or line of hay or a similar crop, designed to achieve the best conditions for drying or curing
- a line of leaves, snow, dust, etc, swept together by the wind
verb
- tr to put (hay or a similar crop) into windrows
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Derived Forms
- ˈwindˌrower, noun
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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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