summer fallow

See also: summer-fallow

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “summer fallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Alternative forms

• summer-fallow

Noun

summer fallow (plural summer fallows)

1. Land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.

   Antonym: winter fallow

   Hypernym: layland

Derived terms

• summer-fallow (verb)