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windrowing

windrowing is the present participle and gerund of windrow.

Meaning of windrow

Verb

windrow (third-person singular simple present windrows, present participle windrowing, simple past and past participle windrowed)

  1. (transitive) 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

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Questions about windrowing

What is windrowing the present participle and gerund of?
Windrowing is the present participle and gerund of windrow.

Words near windrowing in the dictionary

  1. Windross
  2. windrow
  3. windrowed
  4. windrower
  5. windrowers
  6. windrowing
  7. windrows
  8. Windrush
  9. Windrush generation
  10. Windrusher
  11. Windrushers

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