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▪ I. ˈsummer-ˌfallow, n.
[See fallow n. 2.]
A lying or laying fallow during the summer; also, land that lies fallow during the summer.
1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. vii. 78 This sort of Hoeing has..every Year the Effect of a Summer-fallow. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 143 The ill consequence of not giving it a summer-fallow to clean the ground thoroughly. 1801Farmer's Mag. Jan. 85 The quantity of ground under Summer-fallow this year. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 990 The sowing of the fallow-crop on the summer-fallow is delayed to autumn. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 340/1 That prolonged form of it [sc. the fallowing process] called a summer or naked fallow.
b. as adj. Lying fallow during the summer.
1801Farmer's Mag. Jan. 105 The months of November and December were very favourable for getting the Summer-fallow land seed-furrowed. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 999, I..trenched 13 acres of my summer-fallow break in the months of June and July.
▪ II. ˈsummer-ˌfallow, v.
[See fallow v.2]
trans. To lay (land) fallow during summer. Also absol. Hence summer-fallowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 9 For the same reason are the Summer-Fallowings advantageous to the Husbandman. 1760Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 11 In Staffordshire, they often give their lands a winter-fallowing, besides the three summer-fallowings. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 271 The English writers on agriculture, when giving directions about the opening up of grass-ground, always suppose that the land is to be summer-fallowed. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 6 Feb. 1776, The summer-fallowing Farmer. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 158 In the division of Meshaw, it is common to plough clean before Christmas, and summer-fallow for wheat. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 990 That part of the fallow-break which is summer-fallowed. |