What does fallow mean?
Definitions for fallow
ˈfæl oʊfal·low
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Princeton's WordNet
fallowadjective
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons
fallowadjective
left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
"fallow farmland"
fallowadjective
undeveloped but potentially useful
"a fallow gold market"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FALLOWadjective
Etymology: falewe, Saxon.
How does your fallow greyhound, sir?
I heard say, he was out-run at Cotsale. William Shakespeare.The king, who was excessively affected to hunting, had a great desire to make a great park for red as well as fallow deer between Richmond and Hampton-court. Edward Hyde.
The ridges of the fallow field lay traversed, so as the English must cross them in presenting the charge. John Hayward.
Her predecessors, in their course of government, did but sometimes cast up the ground; and so leaving it fallow, it became quickly overgrown with weeds. James Howell, Vocal Forrest.
Her fallow lees
The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,
Doth root upon. William Shakespeare, Henry V.Shall saints in civil bloodshed wallow
Of saints, and let the cause lie fallow. Hudibras, p. i. c. 2.Fallownoun
Etymology: from the adjective.
The plowing of fallows is a very great benefit to land. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
They are the best ploughs to plow up Summer fallow with. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Within an ancient forest’s ample verge,
There stands a lonely but a healthful dwelling,
Built for convenience, and the use of life;
Around it fallows, meads, and pastures fair,
A little garden, and a limpid brook,
By nature’s own contrivance seems dispos’d. Nicholas Rowe, J. Shore.To Fallowverb
To plow in order to a second plowing.
Begin to plow up fallows: this first fallowing ought to be very shallow. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
But the ground ought to be well plowed and fallowed the Summer before. John Mortimer.
Wikipedia
Fallow
Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. Crop rotation systems typically called for some of a farmer's fields to be left fallow each year.The increase in intensive farming, including the use of cover crops in lieu of fallow practices, has caused a loss of acreage of fallow land, as well as field margins, hedges, and wasteland. This has reduced biodiversity; fallows have been the primary habitat for farmland bird populations.
ChatGPT
fallow
Fallow refers to a field of farmland that a farmer has left unplanted for a period of time in order to allow the soil to restore its fertility. It can also be used more broadly to describe anything that is unused or inactive.
Webster Dictionary
Fallowadjective
pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound
Fallownoun
left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground
Fallownoun
plowed land
Fallownoun
land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season
Fallownoun
the plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds
Fallownoun
to plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land
Etymology: [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]
Wikidata
Fallow
Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans. It was released in 1997 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and in 1999 on Sub City Records in the United States. The songs "Letter of Resignation" and "Anchorless" were originally written for Propagandhi, the band which John K. Samson left to form the Weakerthans. "Letter of Resignation" appeared on the Propagandhi/F.Y.P. split 7" and "Anchorless" on the album Less Talk, More Rock. Epitaph Records, the band's current label, rereleased Fallow in Canada on November 6, 2007.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fallow
fal′ō, adj. left untilled or unsowed for a time.—n. land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown after having been ploughed.—v.t. to plough land without seeding it.—ns. Fall′owness, state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow, fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop, as turnips. [Ety. dub.; prob. an assumed A.S. fealgian, that may be confounded with the following word, from the reddish colour of unsown land.]
Fallow
fal′ō, adj. of a brownish-yellow colour.—ns. Fall′ow-chat, Fall′ow-finch, the wheatear or stonechat; Fall′ow-deer, a yellowish-brown deer smaller than the red-deer, with broad flat antlers. [A.S. falu; cf. Ger. fahl, Ice. folr.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FALLOW
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fallow is ranked #113155 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Fallow surname appeared 155 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fallow.
93.5% or 145 total occurrences were White.
5.8% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fallow in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fallow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of fallow in a Sentence
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
This is a legally fallow attempt to undermine years of hard work and cooperative effort.
A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.
Driving through Sacramento Valley, I’ve seen many more open fallow rice fields with nothing on them, it’s because land that’s used for rice farming really ca n’t be used for another crop.
On these fallow lands, there's a lot of generation of wild edibles that are very nutrient rich, and are important for trees, bees, pollinators and birds, we can't just extract everything, there's a need to replenish even as we use.
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- жълтокафяв, незасят, угар, разоравамBulgarian
- lado, lada, úhorCzech
- brach, brachlegen, brachliegend, Brache, falb, BrachlandGerman
- guamil, barbechoSpanish
- kesa, söötEstonian
- viljelemätön, maa, kesannoitu, laiska, joutomaa, joutilas, kesannolla, kesannoida, kesanto, kehittymätönFinnish
- jachère, fricheFrench
- fódbhánIrish
- barbeitoGalician
- परतीHindi
- parlag, ugarHungarian
- maggesareItalian
- 休閑Japanese
- шүдүгөр кылып айдалганKyrgyz
- BroochLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- papuveLatvian
- pātohe, papatuaMāori
- brakkNorwegian
- dries, valg, valgeland, braakland, braakliggendDutch
- brakkNorwegian Nynorsk
- ugórPolish
- pousioPortuguese
- парRussian
- ugar, parlogSerbo-Croatian
- prieloh, úhorSlovak
- trî, trîxhe, djouxhireWalloon
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