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▪ I. windrow, n.|ˈwɪndrəʊ|
Forms and etym.: see wind n.1 and row n.1 (also 8–9 winrow).
a. A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind, or in which dead branches, etc. are gathered to be burnt.
Also collect. or abstr. in phr. into windrow or out of windrow.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §25 On the nexte daye, tourne it agayne before none, and towarde nyght make it in wynd⁓rowes, and than in smal hey-cockes. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 54 Others,..when barley is loggery, and full of greenes, will sette it windrowe stooke. 1691Ray S. & E.C. Words, A Wind-row, the Greens or Borders of a Field dug up, in order to the carrying the Earth on to the Land to mend it. It is called Windrow because it is laid in rows, and exposed to the Wind. 1726[see upganger]. 1764Museum Rust. III. lxv. 297 A machine for raking hay⁓grass into wind-row, drawn by a horse. 1802Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry IV. Gloss., Winraw, hay or peats put together in long thin heaps for the purpose of being more easily dried. 1830Hodgson in Raine Mem. (1858) II. 176 They are also leading much of their hay out of windrow. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 967 After the second 2 ridges have been thus cleared, the third ridge being in the middle, contains the grass of 5 ridges, which is called a windrow. 1882Howells Modern Instance xxxix, The farmers were..heaping into vast winrows for burning the winter-worn stalks of the last year's crop.
b. transf. of similar rows of various things, e.g. of trees blown down (cf. windfall 1) or of dust heaped up by the wind.
1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 176 Logs of all sizes lie in winrows. 1881Scribner's Mag. Aug. 529/2 The river [Hudson] is divided into long lanes and fields of smooth ice by windrows crossing in every direction. 1901‘Lucas Malet’ Sir Richard Calmady i. x, The blue of the upper sky was crossed by curved winrows of flaky, opalescent cloud.
c. fig. Used of similar rows of various things not exposed to or caused by the wind.
1948Times 13 Feb. 5/6 Bulldozers then level off the soil and uprooted bush, packing it aside to form banks known as ‘windrows’ between each contour. 1957L. Eiseley Immense Journey 49 The slowly contracting circle of the water left little windrows of minnows. 1974Sci. Amer. Aug. 21/1 The water soon turned cold again and the fish departed, leaving windrows of dead Pleuroncodes along the beaches. 1980Ibid. Oct. 156/2 The soft rock is gathered into long windrows and transferred mechanically to conveyor belts that carry it away to the processing plant.
▪ II. ˈwindrow, v.
Also winrow.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To lay or set in windrows.
1729P. Walkden Diary (1866) 28 This afternoon, son Thomas went and winrowed our turf o' th' Black Moss. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., To windrow, to rake the mown grass into rows, called windrows. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 968 The grass which had been tedded in the forenoon is windrowed and put into grass-cocks. 1889Doughty Friesland Meres viii. 173 Women were windrowing hay, with rakes different to ours.
Hence ˈwindrowed ppl. a. (in transf. sense); ˈwindrower, a machine for cutting and raking crops into windrows; ˈwindrowing vbl. n.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xli. 311 The desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies. 1946R. Campbell Talking Bronco 24 All round the snarled and windrowed sands Expressed the scandal of the waves. 1948Turner & Johnson Machines for Farm, Ranch & Plantation x. 316 Select side-delivery windrowers when cutting grass-seed crops such as alfalfa. 1955‘P. Janvier’ in Astounding Sci. Fiction Nov. 68/1 Straggled clumps and windrowed hay..were all that remained of the shrubbery and the lawn. 1970K. C. Willett in H. W. Mulligan African Trypanosomiases xxx. 583 If ‘windrowing’ (clearing of the felled vegetation into wind-rows) is necessary the cost is greatly increased. 1976Columbus (Montana) News 17 June 5 (Advt.), Hay Equipment... Windrowers... Balers. |