lean vs windrow

lean

noun
  • An inclination away from the vertical. 

  • An organism that is lean in stature. 

  • Meat with no fat on it. 

  • A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. 

verb
  • To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. 

  • To hang outwards. 

  • To conceal. 

  • Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. 

  • To press against. 

  • To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. 

  • To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. 

adj
  • Having little fat. 

  • Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. 

  • Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. 

  • Slim; not fleshy. 

  • Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". 

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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