单词 | pin fallow |
释义 | pin fallown. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation > fallowing 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). < n.1688 |
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