windrow
/ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/
windrow noun: a row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
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.
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
- A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
Verb
windrow (third-person singular simple present windrows, present participle windrowing, simple past and past participle windrowed)
- To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
- 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.1899, January 7, correspondent P.C.M., The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 22, number 1, “Vermilion”, page 7
- Threshing a previously windrowed swath (windrowing) or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation (direct heading) are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape.1979, Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture, ISSN 0301-5521, volume 7, number 4, “Comparative methods of harvesting oilseed rape”, page 79
Forms of windrow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | windrows |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | windrows |
| present participle | windrowing |
| past participle | windrowed |
| past | windrowed |
Origin of windrow
From wind + row.
Questions about windrow
- What does windrow mean?
- Windrow means a row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- What part of speech is windrow?
- Windrow can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce windrow?
- Windrow is pronounced /ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/.
- What is the plural of windrow?
- The plural of windrow is windrows.
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