thryfallow

English

Alternative forms
  • thrifallow

Etymology

Perhaps from thrice + fallow. Compare trifallow.

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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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