Word Meaning

Meaning of "fallow" and the crossword clue

- Unploughed
- Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
- Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
- Plowed land.
- Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
- 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.
- 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.