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Definition of 'fallow'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) falow, from (etyl) ).
Noun
(agriculture|uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
(agriculture|uncountable) Uncultivated land.
(agriculture|obsolete|countable) An area of fallow land.
The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
* Sinclair
- By a complete summer fallow', land is rendered tender and mellow. The ' fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
Derived terms
( top2)
* bastard fallow
* cropped fallow
* dead-fallow
* ecofallow
* fallow-break
* fallow chat
* fallow crop
* fallow-field
* fallow finch
* fallow ground
( mid2)
* fallowist
* fallow land
* green fallow
* pin-fallow
* rag-fallow
* summer fallow
* winter fallow
( bottom)
Adjective
(head)
(of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Inactive; undeveloped.
Derived terms
* apple-fallow
* fallow chat
* fallow finch
* fallowness
* lay fallow
* lie fallow
Verb
( en-verb)
To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
Derived terms
* fallowed
* fallowing
* re-fallow
* thry-fallow
* trifallow
* twifallow, twyfallow
Etymology 2
From (etyl) falwe, from (etyl) fealu, from (etyl) 'pale'.
Adjective
( en-adj)
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- a fallow deer or greyhound
- (Shakespeare)
Related terms
* fallow deer
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