Faugh. Chiefly Sc. Also 6 faucht, 9 north. fauf. [var. of FALLOW.] trans. To fallow (ground).

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15[?].  Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.). Sayand at [= that] hewald nocht eir nor faucht his land sa air in the yeir.

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1703.  Thoresby, Lett. to Ray, 17 April, Yorksh. Wds. (E.D.S.), Faugh.

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1799.  A. Johnstone, in Statist. Acc. Scotl., XXI. 139. A part of folding ground, enriched by the dung of sheep and of cattle, penned thereon in Summer, during the night and heat of the day, or fauched, (a kind of bastard fallow), and manured by a little compost dung, bore three, four or five crops, and then, according to the quality of the ground, was allowed to rest four, five or six years.

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1810.  Cromek, Rem. Nithsdale Song (1880), 69.

        Tho’ I brawlie can faugh yere weel plowed lea,
Or there’s nane can do’t i’ the hale Kintrie.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Faugh, to fallow.

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1883.  Almondbury Gloss., s.v. They say a man is faufing his land when he is cleaning it with no crop on it.

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