trifallow

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of thrifallow.

Verb

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

  1. (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. [], London: [] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock [], and J[onathan] Robinson [], →OCLC:
      You may yet trifallow, also lay on your compost or Soil , as well on your Barley Land as Wheat Land

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