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Webster 1913 Edition


Windrow

Wind′rowˊ

,
Noun.
[
Wind
+
row
.]
1.
A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
2.
Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.
[Eng.]
3.
The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
[Eng.]

Wind′row

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Windrowed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Windrowing
.]
To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Windrow

WINDROW

,
Noun.
[wind and row.]
1.
A row or line of hay, raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. [This is the only use of the word in New England.]
2.
The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
3.
A row of peats set up for drying; or a row of pieces of turf, sod or sward, cut in paring and burning.