ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Windrow

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Windrow is a noun meaning A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.

Meaning

A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.

More Meanings

  1. A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
  2. A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
  3. A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
  4. (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
  5. (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
  6. (transitive) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

Example Sentences

Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.
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.
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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snows, winrow, wind break, windboard, winnow, winding.

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