trifallow
English
Etymology
Variant of thrifallow.
Verb
trifallow (third-person singular simple present trifallows, present participle trifallowing, simple past and past participle trifallowed)
- (obsolete, rare) To plough (land) the third time before sowing.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
- You may yet trifallow, also lay on your compost or Soil , as well on your Barley Land as Wheat Land
References
- “trifallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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