Chiefly Sc. Forms: 8 faugh, 9 north. fauf, 6 fauch. [Northern var. of FALLOW a.2 (:—OE. *fealh-).] = FALLOW a.2
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. vi. 68.
| And furth thaim sett amyd the foul glar, | |
| Amang the fauch rispis harsk and star. |
c. 1565. Lindsay of Pitscottie, Chron. Scot. (1814), 499. It was in ane fauch eard and rid land quhair they moved for the tyme.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 73/1. Faugh ground, or ground lying Faugh … the same to Fallow.
1721. Ramsay, Wks., To the Earl of Dalhousie (1848), III. 56.
| The Lothian farmer he likes best | |
| To be of good faugh riggs possest. |
1876. Mid. Yorksh. Gloss., s.v. Fauf, ‘A fauf-field,’ a fallow-field.
1876. Whitby Gloss., s.v. Fauf, To ‘lie fauf’ as when the soil is left to mellow.
