ledge vs windrow

ledge

noun
  • A layer or stratum. 

  • A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. 

  • A provincial or territorial legislative assembly. 

  • A cornice. 

  • A (door or window) lintel. 

  • A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams. 

  • A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. 

  • A provincial or territorial legislature building. 

  • A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. 

verb
  • To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc). 

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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