windrow

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Bacon and ham were soon frying on the coals and the pots of coffee were bubbling The horses were put behind the high trees which formed a kind of windrow, and there they ate their forage, and raised their heads now and then to neigh in content.

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  1. noun A row, as of leaves or snow, heaped up by the wind.
  2. noun A long row of cut hay or grain left to dry in a field before being bundled.
  3. transitive verb To shape or arrange into a windrow.

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  • It was the great mass of dead horseflesh and armored bodies lying like a windrow across the meadow to the west of the road that made him breathe quick and hard, panting like his horse as soldiers and laborers dragged men free, laying out the dead and bringing the wounded back on stretchers to where the doctors worked beside the supply wagons. —  Map.html
  • Both of these turn the compost windrow, thereby incorporating air into the manure, which is needed for composting.
  • A beater mounted in the middle of the implement fluffs up the windrow, incorporating air into the pile.
  • A large auger takes the compost windrow in, churns it up and discharges the material at the end of the machine, meaning the location of the windrow is actually displaced from its original location.
  • Producers have also used windrow, or swath grazing. —  High Plains Journal
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  1. Also, corruptly, winrow; from wind + row, n.
  2. from windrow, n.
 

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