单词 | fallow-hay |
释义 | > as lemmasfallow-hay C1. attributive. Of or relating to a fallow (sense 3); esp. grown, or intended to be grown, on a fallow, as fallow crop, fallow-hay, etc. ΚΠ 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. iii. 91 For the tillage or ordering of the ground where you sow hempe or flaxe, it would in all points be like vnto that where you sow barlie, or at the least as often broke vp as you doe when you sow fallow wheat. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxviii. 309 The Chiltern-man is obliged to occupy no less than three several sorts [of plough]; and they are the Fallow Plough, Pea Stitch, or Scent-seed Plough, and Wheat-seed Plough. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. iii. 62 [They] are never induced to pass by the fallow crop, because unable to command the stock necessary to eat it off. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 327 Fallow-hay, hay grown upon a fallow, or new natural ley. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 182 Nor wilt thou fallow-clods disdain. 1834 D. Low Elements Pract. Agric. v. 161 The culture of fallow-crops. 1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) iv. 139 In the lower depths the fallow soils are the wetter. 2015 Herbert River (Queensland) Express (Nexis) 13 June 3 Mr Accornero trialled the six-hectare plot of fragrant rice as a fallow crop after he harvested a rice paddock for another farmer. < as lemmas |
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