ppl. a. [f. FALLOW v.2 + -ED1.] In the senses of the vb.
1551. Turner, Herbal, I. (1568), D ij b. In the corne feldes and in fallowed landes.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 62. Oxen must also be accustomed to draw a plough in fallowed ground.
1735. Somerville, The Chace, II. 132.
Then oer the fallowd Ground | |
How leisurely they work. |
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. x. 368. Very strong crops of grain have, indeed, frequently been produced on fallowed lands, without the smallest quantity of manure having been put upon them.
fig. 1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 83. In the meane time wee will lay in morgage a peece of our fallowed inuention, till our bankerout faculty bee able to repay that deeper debt we owe to true learning.