Crossword clues for fallow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fallow \Fal"low\, a. [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. f["o]lr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plav[u^] white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. polio`s gray, Skr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor.]
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
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[Cf. Fallow, n.] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zo["o]l.), a small European bird, the wheatear ( Saxicola [oe]nanthe). See Wheatear.
Fallow \Fal"low\, n. [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]
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Plowed land. [Obs.]
Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.
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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.
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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.Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.]
Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]
Fallow \Fal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing.] [From Fallow, n.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old English fealh "fallow land," from Proto-Germanic *falgo (cognates: Old High German felga "harrow," German Felge "plowed-up fallow land," East Frisian falge "fallow," falgen "to break up ground"), perhaps from a derivation of PIE root *pel- (3) "to turn, fold." Assimilated since Old English to fallow (adj.), according to OED probably because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land," then "land plowed but not planted" (1520s). As an adjective, from late 14c.
"pale yellow, brownish yellow," Old English fealu "reddish yellow, yellowish-brown, tawny, dusk-colored" (of flame, birds' feet, a horse, withered grass or leaves, waters, roads), from Proto-Germanic *falwa- (cognates: Old Saxon falu, Old Norse fölr, Middle Dutch valu, Dutch vaal, Old High German falo, German falb), from PIE *pal-wo- "dark-colored, gray" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic plavu, Lithuanian palvas "sallow;" Greek polios "gray" (of hair, wolves, waves), Sanskrit palitah, Welsh llwyd "gray;" Latin pallere "to be pale"), suffixed form of root *pel- (2) "pale" (see pallor). It also forms the root of words for "pigeon" in Greek (peleia), Latin (palumbes), and Old Prussian (poalis). Related: Fallow-deer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 (context of agricultural land English) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season. 2 inactive; undeveloped. n. 1 (context agriculture uncountable English) ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. 2 (context agriculture uncountable English) uncultivated land. 3 (context agriculture obsolete countable English) An area of fallow land. 4 The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. v
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(context transitive English) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. Etymology 2
a. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
WordNet
adj. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"
undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market"
n. cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
Wikipedia
Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of sandy soil in fallow fields.
Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000. Also rooted in this older color, is Indian tradition in South Africa where it has been dubbed Ravi Brown.
Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans.
It was released in 1997 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and in 1999 on Sub City Records in the United States.
The songs "Letter of Resignation" and "Anchorless" were originally written for Propagandhi, the band which John K. Samson left to form the Weakerthans. "Letter of Resignation" appeared on the Propagandhi/F.Y.P. split 7" and "Anchorless" on the album Less Talk, More Rock.
Epitaph Records, the band's current label, rereleased Fallow (along with Left and Leaving) in Canada on November 6, 2007.
Fallow is the stage of crop rotation in which the land is deliberately not used to raise a crop.
It has been known since ancient times that if a field is left unplanted, it will regain much of its fertility. Although the ancients ascribed religious or superstitious reasons to this, it is now known that during the hundreds of thunderstorms that are taking place in the Earth's atmosphere at any time, the lightning can split up the diatomic oxygen and nitrogen, which can then recombine as nitrates, compounds of nitrogen and oxygen, which then circulate in the atmosphere and settle onto the surface, refertilizing land which has been cultivated.
Ground may be fallowed as part of a larger crop rotation plan, or as a method to conserve moisture as in the summer fallow technique used in dryland farming. Improved fallows involve the planting and management of leguminous tree, shrub or herbaceous cover crops that can restore soil fertility in one or two growing seasons.
Fallow may also refer to:
- Fallow (album), a 1997 folk-punk album
- Fallow (color), a pale brown color
Usage examples of "fallow".
Miss Burd was going away to allow her tired brains to lie fallow for a while, and most of the other teachers were looking forward to a well-earned rest apart from their forms.
I happen to have a colander of my own, which came with the shack and has been lying fallow all this time.
Old Conc, if you will, since I currently endure on the fallow side of the antediluvian.
Joe spent about an hour chopping weeds in the long unused Roybal ditch, and then, after digging a small feeder trench from Indian Creek into the ditch, he opened the Roybal ditch head-gate at the other end so water could flow onto that fallow land.
A line of filthy smoke was drawn slowly across the face of New Crobuzon, marking it like a stub of pencil, as a late train went east on the Dexter Line, through Gidd and Barguest Bridge, on over the water towards Lud Fallow and Sedim Junction.
New Crobuzon, marking it like a stub of pencil, as a late train went east on the Dexter Line, through Gidd and Barguest Bridge, on over the water towards Lud Fallow and Sedim Junction.
Larks were singing high up in the blue, and wailing lapwings skimmed the fallows.
I was for some years so completely a part that I doubted at times if my old life at Dibblestowe Leys, with my visits to Allerton Court, and my morning tramplings over the brown fallows, had not been a dream, and this my true and real existence, I see many things to be admired as well as some which were to be deplored and condemned.
Many striking illustrations of social life could be taken from the life of the reindeer, and especially of that large division of ruminants which might include the roebucks, the fallow deer, the antelopes, the gazelles, the ibex, and, in fact, the whole of the three numerous families of the Antelopides, the Caprides, and the Ovides.
Torah commands that a sabbatical year be observed every seven years in Israel, during which time all agriculture should be suspended and the land be allowed to lie fallow.
I forgot to say that the land had been fallowed in with three horses in the month of August, and the wheat sowed in October.
In our climate we can sow wheat on the poorest corn ground late in November and have as fine a crop, and harvest it as soon, as we can obtain from well prepared and fallowed without guano sowed early in the season, For every 100 lbs.
Winters seemed certain that he could persuade Breedy to sell Long Fallow to my father.
The brutal manner in which Fallow had been mangled suggested the power of a giant - not the limited strength of a midget or a dwarf.
Grotesquely twisted, mangled to a hideous degree, the chemist had met the same fate that Meldon Fallow had encountered.