summer-fallow

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See also: summer fallow

English

Verb

summer-fallow (third-person singular simple present summer-fallows, present participle summer-fallowing, simple past and past participle summer-fallowed)

  1. To plough and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plough and let lie fallow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for summer-fallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)