Windrow vs. Winrow — What's the Difference?

A windrow is a row of cut (mown) hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled.

Alternative form of windrow

A linear pile of cut hay or grain left to dry in a field before being gathered.

Winrow is an English-language surname which may refer to:

A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.

A windrow.

Any of various other linear piles, as of leaves or snow heaped up by the wind.

To shape or arrange into a windrow.

A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.

A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.

A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.

(by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter

(Canadian) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.

(by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.

(UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.

(transitive) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.

The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

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