splay vs windrow

splay

noun
  • A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them. 

verb
  • To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 

  • To spread; spread out. 

  • To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. 

  • To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root. 

adj
  • Flat and ungainly. 

  • Spread out; turned outward. 

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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