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  • noun Plural form of windrow.

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Examples

  • Maintain the clearing of snow left by ploughs, called windrows, at foot of driveways in suburbs

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ADRIAN MORROW AND ELIZABETH CHURCH 2011

  • Farmers harvest it by cutting the stalks and bundling them into rows called windrows, then waiting seven to 10 days for the seeds to dry out.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • "What happens is when they're just ready, you cut them and put them into what are called windrows: They dry in rows in the field.

    North Coast Journal Comments 2010

  • "What happens is when they're just ready, you cut them and put them into what are called windrows: They dry in rows in the field.

    North Coast Journal Comments 2010

  • The headstones like godswept windrows the cold and dead of a winter dusk.

    Archive 2009-02-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • And when haymaking finally comes around – traditionally when the dry seed capsules in the yellow hay rattle begin to rattle – the mowers leave windrows of drying grasses that map the contours of the field.

    Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011

  • We suffered, and shoveled, and grumbled, as windrows grew to twenty feet or so.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • The headstones like godswept windrows the cold and dead of a winter dusk.

    Is it plagiarism, cento, or prose riff? L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • Then came the rain out of the distance, advancing with the roar of a gale of wind and causing the water of the lagoon to smoke in driven windrows.

    THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010

  • The clouds passed across the field, as if we were on top of a mountain, instead of standing between windrows three feet high.

    The Imbecile 2010

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