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Glazed frame covering top of raked stacks of hay
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windrow
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windrow \Wind"row`\, n. [Wind + row.] 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, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 (context Canadian English) A line of snow or gravel left behind ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A windrow is a row of cut (mowed) hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake , which rakes hay that has been cut by a mowing machine or by scythe into a row, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from wind (n.1) + row (n.). Because it is exposed to the wind for drying.
Usage examples of windrow.
He could imagine the flaming besom from the sky that they saw descending, flaying and withering them, laying corpses as in windrows, and he shuddered.
The open ground stretched two hundred meters wide to where the deadwood was piled in untidy windrows, the leaves long, withered, and browned, the branches forming a natural barricade.
Most of them had dispensed with shotguns and railguns and missile launchers and were dragging out their boma blades even as the fire of the remaining suits piled up windrows of bodies.
On the bay shores and down the coastal rivers, a far gray sun picks up dead glints from windrows of rotted mullet, heaped a foot high.
He plucked cards seemingly at random from the heaps and windrows around it, absentmindedly laid them on the board in uneven messy rows.
The retreating Murgos kept up a steady rain of arrows, littering the ravines stretching up into the hills with windrows of red-garbed dead as the Malloreans doggedly charged up into the foothills.
The upper edge of the rock-strewn beach was thick with windrows of white-bleached driftwood.
Foyle tore at the windrows of wreckage and debris until he disclosed a massive steel face, blank and impenetrable.
In places the retreating tide had left flotsam in ragged windrows that created a scalloped design along the shore.
In the light of the flames, the dead men lay in windrows where the machine-gun had scythed them down, but there were no surviving prison guards either.
They flow in the shadow of pensive trees, and by the brinks of sunny meadows, where the after-math wanders in heavy windrows, and the children sport joyously over the smooth-mown surfaces in all the freedom that there is in Germany.
He could see that at least the trailer was back on its cinder blocks, the glass raked into a crooked windrow.
The clumsy untrained labor of hundreds was scarcely sufficient to cut the brush loose and drag it into windrows for burning, especially when most of them had never lifted anything heavier than a computer mouse or a squash racket in their lives.
Where the ground had not been scored and furrowed by the wheels of the heavy cannons, it was a wasteland of dry soil, withered stalks, bare-branched shrubs, dead flower heads, and windrowed brown leaves.
Hideous perfection, point-blank fire, slender-limbed brown dogs and men in spired helms and red jellabas falling in windrows.