Also winrow. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To lay or set in windrows.
1729. P. Walkden, Diary (1866), 28. This afternoon, son Thomas went and winrowed our turf o’ th’ Black Moss.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., To windrow, to rake the mown grass into rows, called windrows.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 968. The grass which had been tedded in the forenoon is windrowed and put into grass-cocks.
1889. H. M. Doughty, Friesland Meres, viii. 173. Women were windrowing hay, with rakes different to ours.
Hence Windrowed ppl. a. (in transf. sense).
1893. W. H. Hudson, Idle Days Patagonia, viii. 115. The desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies.
