windrow

Meanings

1. A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
2. A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
3. A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
4. A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
5. A ridge or berm at a perimeter
6. A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
7. A long snowbank along the side of a road.
8. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.

1. To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

Etymology

From wind + row.

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