windrows

• “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

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

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “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

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

  Archive 2009-11-01

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

  Is it plagiarism, cento, or prose riff?

• “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

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates

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

  Fictionaut: The Imbecile

• “The time of year was late Summer, which you could tell from the windrows in the hay fields and the brown lawns throughout town.”

  Early mid-life depression?

• “You have to have a stretch of dry days, so that the grass can be mowed, dried, fluffed, dried some more, then raked into windrows and baled.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dirty Life

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