pin fallown.
/ˈpɪn ˌfaləʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɪn ˌfæloʊ/ Agriculture. Chiefly English regional (northern and midlands).
The action or an act of leaving land fallow for a limited period after ploughing, esp. during the winter; land that lies fallow during the winter; a period during which land lies fallow; = winter fallow n. at winter n.1 Compounds 2.Apparently unattested in the 19th cent., although cf. pin-fallow v.
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summer fallow1601
winter fallow1601
fallowing1610
summer fallowing1610
foiling1616
pin fallow1688
winter-fallowing1707
summer-working1778
bare-fallowing1829
summer work1886
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 334/1 Pin Fallow, is a Plowing twice for Pease, first in Christmas, then in March.
1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties I. 241 Pin-fallow. The origin of this term I have not learnt: it appears to be synonymous with winter-fallow or barley fallow.
1794 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset 159 Pin fallow..ploughing after vetches, clover, or beans, two or three times, to prepare for a succeeding crop of wheat.
1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 364/1 Pin fallow,..land left fallow but not an entire year—often between taking off a crop in autumn and the sowing of a different crop late the next spring.
1969 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. i. 164 Q[uestion]. What do you call land that you have ploughed but that you leave unsown for some time?.. Lei[cestershire]..pιnfaɫə.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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