glacis vs windrow

glacis

noun
  • A gentle incline in front of a fortification. 

  • The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate. 

  • An erosional or depositional landform, with little slope. 

  • A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface. 

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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