| 单词 | winter fallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter fallow winter fallow n. the state or fact of lying fallow during the winter; (also) land that lies fallow during the winter. [Compare earlier summer fallow n.] 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 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land > other fallows summerlea1572 summer fallow1601 winter fallow1601 twifallowing1610 fallow1684 rag fallow1784 1601 God speede Plough sig. Bv An Acre of ground turned vp before Christmas, so as it may lie in a Winter fallow. 1788 G. Washington Diary 20 Feb. (1925) III. 306 At Muddy hole they were..taking up grubs in the Winter fallow of No. 4. 1805 J. Wilson in Communications to Board of Agric. IV. 150 The winter after that, it [sc. the field] was made a kind of winter fallow, that is, it was ploughed, and harrowed in the winter, which is a silly practice, for this sort of fallowing never kills any trash in the land. 1907 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 32 14 Constant raking and rolling after such winter fallow will do wonders. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xi. 265 A season of cropping may be alternated with a season of bare fallow, or winter fallow followed by a summer crop or vice versa. < as lemmas |
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