noun
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Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
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Uncultivated land.
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The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
verb
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To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
Examples of fallows in a Sentence
In winter, however, and in fallows loss takes place in the subsoil water.
The rotation of crops is not adopted as a principle of cultivation; but in practice it is well known that a succession of exhausting crops cannot be taken in consecutive seasons from the same field, and the advantage of fallows is widely recognized.
No room was left for intermediate or temporary forms such as forest fallows.
Background The spatial distribution of rice fallows in South Asia was documented using a GIS approach.
The reduction in rotation of cereal crops with other land covers (including grass leys and fallows ).
Much advantage arises from the steam working of bastard fallows in summer, and after harvest a considerable amount of autumn cultivation can be done by steam power, thus materially lightening the work in the succeeding spring.
In the province of Naples, Caserta, &c., the method of fallows is widely adopted, the ground often being left in this state for fifteen or twenty years; and in some parts of Sicily there is a regular interchange of fallow and crop year by year.