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- noun Plural form of
windrow .
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Examples
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Maintain the clearing of snow left by ploughs, called windrows, at foot of driveways in suburbs
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ADRIAN MORROW AND ELIZABETH CHURCH 2011
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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The headstones like godswept windrows the cold and dead of a winter dusk.
Archive 2009-02-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009
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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.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011
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We suffered, and shoveled, and grumbled, as windrows grew to twenty feet or so.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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The headstones like godswept windrows the cold and dead of a winter dusk.
Is it plagiarism, cento, or prose riff? L. Lee Lowe 2009
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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 2010
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The clouds passed across the field, as if we were on top of a mountain, instead of standing between windrows three feet high.
The Imbecile 2010
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