windrower
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- noun
- /ˈwɪndˌroʊər/
- Specialized
:
cosechadora
- The windrower arranged the freshly cut hay into neat rows for drying in the sun.
Examples
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She raised the cutting bar at the end of a row, turned the windrower sharply in front of the irrigation ditch, and turned again, lowering the cutting bar at the edge of the high alfalfa.
Fiction book (1997) -
The engine of the windrower resumed its steady roar, and above that, the clicking of the metal teeth and the slapping of the canvas conveyors which carried the cut.
Fiction book (1997) -
The windrower sputtered and stopped, and she opened her eyes.
Fiction book (1997) -
She had done two perimeter cuts to give the windrower space to turn around at the ends of the rows, and now three rows north and south.
Fiction book (1997) -
She thought of herself as blind, driving the windrower back and forth across the field by the feel of it, staying in the grooves where the irrigation water ran, measuring and keeping to the angle of the sun, and feeling the echo of the engine from the cliff across the river.
Fiction book (1997) -
The windrower lurched left, and Joan raised the cutting bar to slide over what she knew was the unseen mound of a gopher hole under the dry alfalfa.
Fiction book (1997) -
After cutting the grass, the windrower helped to lay it out evenly for better drying.
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Using the windrower, the farmer made sure the crops were organized in rows to prepare for harvesting.
Synonyms
A machine or person that cuts crops and puts them in rows to dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word windrower comes from the parts wind ('air') and row ('line'), and the -er at the end, as in mower, shows it is a machine. So a windrower is a machine that cuts crops and lays them in neat lines so the wind can dry them.