(A piece of) fallow ground; = fallow, n.1 3.

Fallow land; land ‘laid down’ to grass.

An elevated ridge. A balk or ridge in a field between two furrows.

Scottish. Arable land left fallow; unploughed land. Cf. red land, n.2 Obsolete.

Ground that is left uncultivated after being ploughed and harrowed, in order to restore its fertility; a piece of such land. See also summer fallow…

A strip of land left unploughed as a boundary line and means of access between two ploughed portions of a field; also, according to some recent…

an area of fallow land.

(See quot.)

a piece of land lain fallow for a summer; the state or condition of lying fallow for a summer; (also and in earliest use) the action or an act of…

Land ploughed up and left fallow, fallow land.

a fallow on which no crop is grown, as opposed to one from which a green crop is taken.

(a) land taken out of use for agricultural production (? temporary); (b) the soil as a continuing store of seeds, pathogens, nutrients, etc.