windrow

windrow

English

Etymology

wind +‎ row

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊ/

Noun

windrow (plural windrows)

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.
   1. (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
5. (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
   1. (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
6. (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.

Translations

row of cut grain or hay

Bulgarian: откос (bg) m (otkos) Catalan: andana (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 成排的乾草／成排的干草 (chéngpái de gāncǎo) Dutch: zwad (nl), zwade (nl) Finnish: karhe (fi) French: andain (fr) m Galician: renque m German: Schwade (de) f Irish: láithreán féir m Italian: andana (it) f Russian: вало́к (ru) m (valók) Spanish: hilera (es) f Swedish: hösträng c Walloon: hougne (wa) f, andon m Westrobothnian: kår f, dysse f

line heaped up by the wind

Dutch: wal (also specified by substance, e.g. turfwal)

streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea

Finnish: vana

line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader

Finnish: karhe

ridge or berm at a perimeter

Finnish: reunavalli

line of snow left behind by snowplow

Finnish: valli

long snowbank along the side of a road

Finnish: penkka

green border of a field, dug up

Verb

windrow (third-person singular simple present windrows, present participle windrowing, simple past and past participle windrowed)

1. (transitive) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
   • 1899, January 7, correspondent P.C.M., The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 22, number 1, “Vermilion”, page 7:

     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.

   • 1979, Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture, ISSN 0301-5521, volume 7, number 4, “Comparative methods of harvesting oilseed rape”, page 79:

     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.

   • 1990, J. A. Epps, Transportation Research Board, NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice, ISSN 0547-5570, “Cold-Recycled Bituminous Concrete Using Bituminous Materials”, →ISBN, “Blade Mixing”, page 13:

     Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.