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Furrow vs Windrow - What's the difference?

furrow | windrow |

In lang=en terms the difference between furrow and windrow

is that furrow is to pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc while windrow is to arrange (eg new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

As nouns the difference between furrow and windrow

is that furrow is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop while windrow is a row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.

As verbs the difference between furrow and windrow

is that furrow is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc) while windrow is to arrange (eg new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

furrow

English

(Plough)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
    • Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
  • Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
  • A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
    • When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
    • Cart wheels can furrow roads.
  • To wrinkle
  • To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
    • Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.

    Synonyms

    * (sense, to pull one's brows or eyebrows together) frown

    See also

    * plough a lonely furrow

    windrow

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia windrow) (en noun)
  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field
  • 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
  • (Canadian) A line of snow or gravel left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s or grader’s blade.
  • (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
  • * 1899 , January 7, correspondent P.C.M., The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , volume 22, number 1, “Vermilion”, page 7:
    • This cool spell favored the cane shipped to some extent, for if the weather had remained as warm for three or four days as it was Friday, all the cane that was windrowed' after the freeze would have been lost and much of it that was ' windrowed before the freeze would have met a like fate.
  • * 1979 , Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture , ISSN 0301-5521, volume 7, number 4, “Comparative methods of harvesting oilseed rape”, page 79:
    • Threshing a previously windrowed' swath (' windrowing ) or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation (direct heading) are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape.
  • * 1990 , J. A. Epps, (Transportation Research Board), NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice , ISSN 0547-5570, “Cold-Recycled Bituminous Concrete Using Bituminous Materials”, ISBN 0-309-04911-3, “Blade Mixing”, page 13:
    • Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.