Specifically To cut (sugarcane) before it is quite ripe and lay (it) in rows in the furrows. This is done to prevent the sap from running back into the roots or being otherwise spoiled by the action of frost.n. A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps; also, sheaves of corn set up in a row one against another in order that the wind may blow between them.n. A row of peats set up for drying; a row of pieces of turf, sod, or sward cut in paring and burning.n. Any similar row or formation; an extended heap, as of dust thrown up by the wind.n. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth to other land to mend it: so called because laid in rows and exposed to the wind.To rake or put into the form of a windrow.