thryfallow

English

Alternative forms

• thrifallow

Etymology

From Middle English thry, thrie (from Old English þrīa, þrīġa (“three times, thrice”)) + fallow. Compare twifallow.

Verb

thryfallow (third-person singular simple present thryfallows, present participle thryfallowing, simple past and past participle thryfallowed)

1. (obsolete) To plough for the third time in summer.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     Thry fallow betime, for destroieng of weede,
     least thistle and duck fall a blooming and seede

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “thryfallow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)