† re-fallowv.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To fallow land again. Also transitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > plough again
twifallow1428
replough1683
re-fallow1775
backset1883
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 17 May (1778) Began to re-fallow.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 174 He laid on, (when the land came to be re-fallowed), 20 or 25 bolls more.
1852 Southern Planter Jan. 116/2 I never use the subsoil plough, but break up with a three horse plough, and re-fallow with the same.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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