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fallow

Land ploughed and tilled, but left unsown for a season to allow it to recuperate. In Europe, it is associated with the medieval three-field system. It is used in some modern crop rotations and in countries that do not have access to fertilizers to maintain soil fertility.



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Plough in the spring; but fallow broken up in the summer will not belie your hopes.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The principal quadrupeds that had been seen by the colonists in their various expeditions were the stag, fallow deer, hart, black and grizzly bear, antelope, ahsahta or bighorn, beaver, sea and river otter, muskrat, fox, wolf, and panther, the latter extremely rare.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
The two years during which his mind had lain fallow had refreshed him, he fancied, and he was able now to work with energy.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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