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单词 windrow
释义 wind·row
I. \ˈwin(d)ˌrō\ noun
also win·row \ˈwinˌrō\
Etymology: wind (I) + row
1.
 a.
  (1) : a row of hay raked up to dry before being rolled or pitched into cocks
  (2) : a similar row (as of grain) for drying
 b. : a row heaped up by or as if by the wind
  < powdery new snow … cut sharp in windrows — Brooks Atkinson >
  < the tides heap the western beaches with windrows of shells — Marjory S. Douglas >
 c.
  (1) : a long low ridge of road-making material that has been scraped to the side of a road
  (2) : bank, ridge, heap
   < these rock windrows, piled up as fields are cleared of stones, hold water on the land — Quentin Keynes >
   < beneath the wagons lay windrows of slumbering men — T.W.Duncan >
2. : a furrow in which sugarcane stalks are laid in order to obtain a new crop of cane from the eyes of the stalks or to protect the stalks from frost
II. transitive verb
also winrow \“\
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to put into windrows
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