windrow

noun

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.

transitive verb

To shape or arrange into a windrow.

Specifically To cut (sugarcane) before it is quite ripe and lay (it) in rows in the furrows. This is done to prevent the sap from running back into the roots or being otherwise spoiled by the action of frost.

To rake or put into the form of a windrow.

noun

A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps; also, sheaves of corn set up in a row one against another in order that the wind may blow between them.

noun

A row of peats set up for drying; a row of pieces of turf, sod, or sward cut in paring and burning.

noun

Any similar row or formation; an extended heap, as of dust thrown up by the wind.

noun

The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth to other land to mend it: so called because laid in rows and exposed to the wind.

transitive verb

To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.