单词 | windrow |
释义 | windrown. 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 collective or abstract in into or out of windrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field > row raked for drying gavelc1440 windrow?1523 wind-balk1532 javel1601 turning1795 roller1844 wallow1875 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv On the next day turne it agayne towarde night and make it in windrowes and than in small hey cockes. 1641 H. Best Rural Econ. Yorks. (1857) 57 Others..when barley is loggery and full of greenes, will sette it winderowe stooke. 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 120 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 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 198 Of Brick-Making:..an Up-Ganger, who,..as they become stiff, takes them [sc. the new bricks] up, and sets them in Wind-Rows to be dried. 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 lxv. 297 A machine for raking hay~grass into wind-row, drawn by a horse. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Winraw, hay or peats put together in long thin heaps for the purpose of being more easily dried. 1830 Hodgson in Raine Mem. (1858) II. 176 They are also leading much of their hay out of windrow. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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. 1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xxxix. 486 The farmers were..heaping into vast windrows for burning the winter-worn stalks of the last year's crop. b. transferred of similar rows of various things, e.g. of trees blown down (cf. windfall n. 1) or of dust heaped up by the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > of trees, dust, etc., blown by the wind windrow1869 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 176 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Logs of all sizes lie in winrows. 1881 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 529/2 The river [Hudson] is divided into long lanes and fields of smooth ice by windrows crossing in every direction. 1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady i. x The blue of the upper sky was crossed by curved winrows of flaky, opalescent cloud. c. figurative. Used of similar rows of various things not exposed to or caused by the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row reweOE rowc1225 ranka1325 rengec1330 ordera1382 rulec1384 rangea1450 ray1481 line1557 tier1569 train1610 string1713 rail1776 windrow1948 1948 Times 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. 1957 L. Eiseley Immense Journey 49 The slowly contracting circle of the water left little windrows of minnows. 1974 Sci. Amer. Aug. 21/1 The water soon turned cold again and the fish departed, leaving windrows of dead Pleuroncodes along the beaches. 1980 Sci. Amer. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022). windrowv. transitive. To lay or set in windrows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > rake into rows gavelc1440 windrow1729 roller1831 1729 P. Walkden Diary 3 July (1866) (modernized text) 28 This afternoon, son Thomas went and winrowed our turf o' th' Black Moss. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. To windrow, to rake the mown grass into rows, called windrows. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 968 The grass which had been tedded in the forenoon is windrowed and put into grass-cocks. 1889 H. M. Doughty Friesland Meres viii. 173 Women were windrowing hay, with rakes different to ours. Derivatives ˈwindrowed adj. (in transferred sense). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [adjective] > laid in rows by the wind windrowed1851 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 216 The desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies. 1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 24 All round the snarled and windrowed sands Expressed the scandal of the waves. 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. ˈwindrower n. a machine for cutting and raking crops into windrows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > reaping-machine > types of jowlc1420 header1852 heading machine1853 self-delivery1853 self-binder1859 self-deliverer1859 reaper-binder1880 string-binder1891 windrower1948 1948 Turner & Johnson Machines for Farm, Ranch & Plantation x. 316 Select side-delivery windrowers when cutting grass-seed crops such as alfalfa. 1976 Columbus (Montana) News 17 June 5 (advt.) Hay Equipment... Windrowers... Balers. ˈwindrowing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field parchinga1398 tedding1481 making?1523 winning1844 fielding1848 windrowing1970 1970 K. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1523v.1729 |
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