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单词 fallowist
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fallowistn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fallow n.1, -ist suffix.
Etymology: < fallow n.1 + -ist suffix.
Agriculture. Obsolete.
A person who allows land to lie fallow, or who favours or advocates doing so.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation > one who practises
Virgilian1731
fallowist1786
shifting cultivator1945
monoculturist1973
swiddener1975
1786 W. Macro in Ann. Agric. 6 439 In regard to the fallowist, and anti-fallowist, I own I am so far of the latter's opinion, as to think, [etc.].
1817 J. Sinclair Code Agric. iii. 227 On this subject a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists, and anti-fallowists.
1842 Farmer's Cabinet 15 July 378/1 Although I am sure I am no fallowist, yet I am as sure that to properly pulverize certain descriptions of soils, requires fit times and seasons.
1879 Ukiah (Calif.) City Press 3 Jan. The farmers are becoming alarmed at the outlook, and the faith of the ‘fallowist’ is being sorely tried.
1928 West Austral. (Perth) 8 June 12/2 Everyone of the farmers in our wheat crop competitions was a fallowist with an average yield of wheat of nearly 27 bushels per acre last year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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