mine vs windrow

mine

noun
  • A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. 

  • Any source of wealth or resources. 

  • A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. 

  • The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. 

  • An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. 

  • A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. 

  • A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. 

verb
  • To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). 

  • To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine. 

  • To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. 

  • To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. 

  • To pick one's nose. 

  • To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). 

  • To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. 

  • To dig into, for ore or metal. 

  • To remove (rock or ore) from the ground. 

pron
  • Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. 

  • Used predicatively. 

  • Used substantively, with an implied noun. 

  • Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. 

windrow

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

  • 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 ridge or berm at a perimeter 

  • 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 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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