trifallow

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verb

To plough (land) the third time before sowing.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbtrifallow (third-person singular simple present trifallows, present participle trifallowing, simple past and past participle trifallowed)

present singular third person trifallows · participle present trifallowing · participle past trifallowed · past trifallowed · alternative thryfallow · alternative thrifallow

  1. obsoleterareTo plough (land) the third time before sowing.

    You may yet trifallow, also lay on your compost or Soil , as well on your Barley Land as Wheat Land

    1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
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