fallowedadj.
/ˈfaləʊd/, U.S. /ˈfæloʊd/ That is or has been fallowed (literal and figurative); (in later use esp.) left uncultivated or idle.
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1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles f. xxvi (margin) A busy wyt must be confounded, and so tamed like a yonge colte in a newe falowed lande, broughte to knowe his imbecillite.
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. D ij b In the corne feldes and in fallowed landes.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 84 In the meane time wee will lay in mortgage a peece of our fallowed invention.
1683 J. Reid Scots Gard'ner ii. ii. 71 Forrest-trees require not so much dung as Fruit-trees, but well mixed and fallowed soil.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 132 O'er the fallow'd Ground How leisurely they work.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. x. 368 Crops..produced on fallowed lands.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. lxviii. 945 If the thorn-bed was formed of turf, the grass below the line of a young hedge may be expected to be pretty strong; but if made on fallowed ground, the weeds will be few.
1891 C. G. Miller Chihuahua iii. 59 The idiotic expression of a gilded youth of fallowed brains.
1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) iv. 124 The fallowed land down to a depth of 6 feet had an average of 12.9 per cent. of ‘free water’.
1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 375/1 This pioneer plant, invading open spaces in pastures and fallowed arable land, forms dense patches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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