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windrow

/wind-roh, win-/US // ˈwɪndˌroʊ, ˈwɪn- //UK // (ˈwɪndˌrəʊ, ˈwɪnˌrəʊ) //

绕绕车车草丛,绕绕车车草,绕绕车车草丛丛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a row or line of hay raked together to dry before being raked into heaps.
    • : any similar row, as of sheaves of grain, made for the purpose of drying.
    • : a row of dry leaves, dust, etc., swept together by the wind.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to arrange in a windrow.

Examples

  • She crawled through wrack and weed, over jagged stones, and fell exhausted on a sodden windrow of drift.

  • Pull up the turnips, top and tail them, then throw them in a sort of windrow, and let them lie a few days to dry.

  • Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.

  • Each row is termed a “windrow,” the passage of the wind through the hay greatly aiding the drying and “making” thereof.

  • He hopped from bough to bough of the great windrow, and nearly always he sang.