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🌾 A row of cut crops 🌾 To pile in rows
to windrow

to windrow

8.7
To arrange cut grass or hay in a long line to dry
  • verb
  • /ˈwɪndroʊ/
  • Specialized
: apilar
  • Before the harvest, the team will windrow the cut plants for easier collection.

Examples

  • After the liquids are removed, the cartons are mixed with shredded yard trimmings and windrowed.

    Academic text (1997)

  • "Normally, yard trimmings are just windrowed and then turned occasionally with a front-end loader."

    Academic text (1997)

  • The material then will be windrowed until it cures.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Material is then mixed with other feedstocks and windrowed below.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Material remaining after sorting is conveyed to a composting building, ground, and windrowed.

    Academic text (1998)

  • After the digester phase, feedstock is passed through a PowerScreen to remove anything larger than two inches, and then windrowed for three weeks.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Materials are mixed and windrowed on top of a pad of wood chips with a Knight Reel Auggie mixer and Case tractor.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Poultry manure and yard trimmings were mixed with a front-end loader before windrowing.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Farmers often windrow the hay to allow it to dry evenly in the sun.

  • To prepare the grass for baling, they usually windrow it in tight rows.

Synonyms

to rake
vsto windrow
28 1.0

To gather leaves or loose soil using a long-handled tool with teeth

is done to form rows for drying and later collection rather than simple clearing
to rick
vsto windrow
  • Archaic
9.8

To pile hay or straw into a stack outdoors for storage

is done to dry or gather material for later collection rather than long storage

How Organized

to windrow
  • Specialized
8.7
to stack
138 1.6
to rake
14 3.9
to gather
∞ 1.0
to scatter
187 2.8

Surface Forms

windrow infinitive
windrowed past
windrowed past participle
windrowing present participle
windrows third person singular

Morphology

windrow = wind + row (opaque) = wind + row

The verb 'windrow' meaning to arrange in rows is not transparently derived from 'wind' and 'row'.

Etymology

To windrow is to put cut crops or grass into a neat 'row' so the 'wind' can dry them before you collect them, which is exactly what farmers do when they windrow hay.