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summer-fallow

summer-fallow verb: to plough and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plough and let lie fallow.

Verb

summer-fallow (third-person singular simple present summer-fallows, present participle summer-fallowing, simple past and past participle summer-fallowed)

  1. To plough and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plough and let lie fallow.

Forms of summer-fallow

third-person singular presentsummer-fallows
present participlesummer-fallowing
past participlesummer-fallowed
pastsummer-fallowed

Questions about summer-fallow

What does summer-fallow mean?
Summer-fallow means to plough and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plough and let lie fallow.
What part of speech is summer-fallow?
Summer-fallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of summer-fallow?
The past tense of summer-fallow is summer-fallowed.

Words near summer-fallow in the dictionary

  1. summer yellow
  2. summer yellows
  3. summer's day
  4. summer-castle
  5. summer-castles
  6. summer-fallow
  7. summer-fallowed
  8. summer-fallowing
  9. summer-fallows
  10. summer-house
  11. summer-houses

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