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noun

Windrow n.

A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. (Eng.)

The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. (Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Windrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... myriads working upon its surface and gathering from each tiny flower's heart that which makes the clearest and purest and most wine-like of all honey? Have you stood at the forest's edge, perched high upon a fence, maybe of trees felled into a huge windrow when first the field was cleared, or else of rails of oak or ash, both black and white—the black ash lasts the longer, for worms invade the white—and looked upon a field of growing Indian corn, the green spread ...

— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo

... exactly the sort of place they desired. At some time, evidently within a few months, for no brush had as yet sprung up, a hurricane had swept through the forest: and where it had passed lay a windrow of trees as flat as a swath of grain after the scythe has gone through it. The windrow was several rods in width, and not a tree remained standing within that space. The fallen trees were piled upon one another in ...

— The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss