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Word entry · 6 letters

fallow

Best crossword clue

"Resting, as farmland"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfæləʊ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted afllowStarts with FEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Left unplanted for a season.

Word origin

From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).

Used in a sentence

  • By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
  • a fallow period in one's career
  • After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.

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