单词 | pin-fallow |
释义 | pin-fallowv. Agriculture. English regional (midlands). rare. transitive. To leave (land) fallow for the winter, having ploughed it for a new crop. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > lay fallow summerlay1467 fauch1579 summer fallow1625 rest1634 summerland1667 summer work1687 winter-fallowa1722 pin-fallow1808 dead-fallow1851 fallow1873 bare-fallow1961 1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) vii. 65 The wheat-stubble [is] pin-fallowed, that is, ploughed in autumn and laid dry, cross-ploughed in March, and harrowed down, and ploughed up and sown with barley in April. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) When lea-land is fallowed about July or August, ready to be ploughed again for the crop, it is said to be pin-fallowed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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