enclosure vs windrow

enclosure

noun
  • An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers. 

  • The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members. 

  • The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier. 

  • The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package. 

  • Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package. 

  • The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws. 

  • The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership. 

windrow

noun
  • A ridge or berm at a perimeter 

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

  • A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. 

  • A long snowbank along the side of a road. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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