peak vs windrow

peak

noun
  • The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. 

  • The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. 

  • The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail. 

  • A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. 

  • The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. 

  • The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated. 

  • The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. 

  • A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum. 

verb
  • To reach a highest degree or maximum. 

  • To pry; to peep slyly. 

  • To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. 

  • To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular. 

  • To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans). 

  • To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. 

  • To become sick or wan. 

adj
  • At the greatest extent; maximum. 

  • bad or unfortunate. 

  • Unlucky; unfortunate 

  • Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type. 

  • Bad 

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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