fallow
nounEtymology
[Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.] From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-West Germanic *falu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl, French fauve), from Proto-Indo-European *polwos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas (“sallow, wan”), Russian поло́вый (polóvyj, “wan, light yellow”), Serbo-Croatian plâv (“blond, blue”), Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”).
Definitions
Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
Uncultivated land.
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.
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Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
Inactive
Inactive; undeveloped.
- a fallow period in one's career
- After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.
To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- a fallow deer or greyhound
- How does your fallow greyhound, sir?
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Derived
bastard fallow, cropped fallow, dead-fallow, ecofallow, fallow-break, fallowchat, fallow crop, fallow-field, fallowfinch, fallow ground, fallow land, fallow syndrome, green fallow, pin-fallow, rag-fallow, summer fallow, winter fallow, fallow chat, fallow finch, fallowist, apple-fallow, fallowness, lay fallow, lie fallow
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA