noun
- a farm machine that cuts and arranges crops in rows for drying
Usage: agricultural
Examples
- The farmer used a swather to cut the hay field.
- After the swather passed through, neat rows of cut grain covered the field.
- The new swather can handle both wheat and barley crops.
- They rented a swather for the harvest season.
- The swather left windrows of alfalfa ready for baling.