dead-fallown.
A complete year's fallow, i.e. rest for the land for both a summer and a winter.
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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
1851 J. A. Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. xii. 344 Beans come after wheat, and a dead-fallow before it.
Derivatives
ˈdead-ˈfallow v.
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1881 Daily News 5 Sept. 2/2 Nearly the whole of the arable has been dead-fallowed this summer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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