summer-fallow

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUMMER-FAL'LOW, noun [See Fallow.] Naked fallow; land lying bare of crops in summer. SUMMER-FAL'LOW, verb transitive To plow and work repeatedly in summer, to prepare for wheat or other crop.
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