Meaning & use
Windrows
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Long rows of cut hay, grain, or leaves raked together to dry before being gathered.
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The farmer raked the fresh hay into neat windrows before baling it.
Snowplows left tall windrows of snow along the edge of the driveway.
A note on using this word
Originally an agricultural term for hay left to dry in the wind, "windrow" is now also used for snow ridges pushed up by plows.
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swaths
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