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Definition of "windrow" [wind•row]

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "windrow" in a sentence
  • "Nothing could have saved them had it not been that, just at the most critical moment, they reached a "windrow," a strip of ground upon which a storm had hurled down the trunks of trees in wild confusion."
  • "Once a proper site is located, and the permit is acquired, it is time to begin the compost pile ( "windrow")."
  • ""windrow" of dead men in blue; some doubled up face downward, others with their white faces upturned to the sky, brave boys who had been shot to death in "holding the line.""