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单词 trifallow
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trifallowv.

Forms: Also 1700s try-, tre-; see also thry-fallow v.
Etymology: apparently altered from the earlier three- , thry-fallow , after twifallow v., or under the influence of tri- comb. form prefix as in tri-weekly, triennial, etc.
Obsolete.
transitive. To plough (land) a third time in the course of its lying fallow. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > plough for third time
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 52/2 Thry fallow I pray thee, least thistles bewray thee.]
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 43 Orders and seasons for fallowing, twifallowing, trifallowing and seed-furre.
1641 Terrier Plesheybury Manor, Essex Sept. lf. 5 b The tenaunt..to leave 10 acres of land sufficiently fallowed, twyfallowed, thryfallowed.
1681 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) at Fallow Thus may you fallow, twi-fallow, and trifallow; that is, once, twice, or thrice plough it before the Seed-time.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 53 About the latter end of July or beginning of August, is the time of Try-fallowing, or last plowing before they sow their Rye or Wheat.
1766 Compl. Farmer To Trefallow, to plough land the third time before sowing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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