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fallow

UK /ˈfæləʊ/US /ˈfæloʊ/

adjective 4
noun 3
verb 1
forms 7

adjective4

Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
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(figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked. — 1990
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Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- How does your fallow greyhound, sir? — 1597

noun3

Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
Uncultivated land.
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The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
- 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. — 1832

verb1

To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

forms

fallowed · fallowing · falloweth · fallows · more fallow · fallowest · most fallow

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