Crossword clues for windrow
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windrow \Wind"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windrowed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Windrowing.]
To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
--Forby.
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, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 by the edge of a snowplow’s or grader’s blade. 5 (context UK English) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. vb. (context transitive English) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
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, or it may naturally form as the hay is mowed. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by a swather which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.
By analogy, the term may also be applied to a row of any other material such as snow, earth, etc. In the case of snow, windrows are created by snow plows as they clear roads of snow. The windrow may block driveways. Some municipalities have a windrow removal service where a smaller plow goes to each individual driveway to clear the windrow. Most cities simply make the home owner clear the windrow to their own driveway and some cities plow the windrow to the centre of the street then blow the snow into trucks, and haul it away. Windrows made of snow are also called berms or, more commonly, snow banks.
A windrow can also be the build-up of material on the edge of newly graded earthworks and dirt roads, or it can be a heap of road-building material laid down by a dump truck for collection by a paving machine.
Municipalities that collect raked-up leaves ask that their citizens rake their leaves into windrows along and above the curb.
Windrows of soil are often used in large scale vermicomposting systems. Garden waste (leaves, branches and grass for example) and other biodegradable materials are shredded and mixed and placed into rows for large scale composting are also known as windrows. See Windrow composting.
In preparing a pond or lake for ice cutting, the snow on top of the ice which slows freezing may be scraped off and piled in windrows.
The term 'windrow', also 'gyre', is also used to describe a grouping of fossils that have been deposited together as a result of turbulence or wave action in a marine or freshwater environment. Fossils of similar shape and size are commonly found grouped or sorted together as a result of separation based on weight and shape.
Windrows of seaweed etc. also form on the surface of lakes or seas due to cylindrical Langmuir circulation just under the surface caused by the action of the wind.
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.