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windrow /ˈwɪndrəʊ /noun1A long line of raked hay, corn sheaves, or peats laid out to dry in the wind.If you rake windrows to dry out any stems on the bottom, leaves are apt to crumble and fall away, leaving just sticks for hay....- The hay was belt-buckle high when rain let up, three days' sun baked stalks dry, and by midday all but the far pasture was mowed and raked into windrows.
- Wind-rowed high-sugar corn forage had comparable nutritional quality indices to that of stockpiled high-sugar corn; however, cattle gains were reduced when corn forage was grazed in windrows.
1.1North American A long line of material heaped up by the wind or by a machine: the surface of the water was streaked with windrows of scud...- On a single occasion in 1949, for example, a windrow of unidentifiable algal material was recorded on the shore.
- The graders ripped the existing road and gathered all available material into two windrows, then spread and graded behind the mobile crusher as it progressed down the road.
- The heaps, known as windrows, bring down the temperature of the garbage and prevent leaching too, Ms. Patel says.
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