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thrifallow

thrifallow is the alternative form of trifallow.

Meaning of trifallow

Verb

trifallow (third-person singular simple present trifallows, present participle trifallowing, simple past and past participle trifallowed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To plough (land) the third time before sowing.
    • You may yet trifallow, also lay on your compost or Soil , as well on your Barley Land as Wheat Land1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Forms of thrifallow

third-person singular presentthrifallows
present participlethrifallowing
past participlethrifallowed
pastthrifallowed

Questions about thrifallow

What is thrifallow the alternative form of?
Thrifallow is the alternative form of trifallow.

Words near thrifallow in the dictionary

  1. thridden
  2. thridding
  3. thriddings
  4. thrids
  5. Thriess
  6. thrifallow
  7. thrift
  8. thrift box
  9. thrift boxes
  10. thrift shop
  11. thrift shopping

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