Fallow /(?)/

Fal·low

Fallow

a.
  1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
  2. Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.

Phrases & Compounds
Fallow chat
a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear.

Fallow

n.
  1. Plowed land. [Obs.]
    Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.
  2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
    The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.
  3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
    Be 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.
    — Sinclair.

Phrases & Compounds
Fallow crop
the crop taken from a green fallow.
Green fallow
fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.

Fallow

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing

  1. To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.