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thryfallow

thryfallow 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 thryfallow

third-person singular presentthryfallows
present participlethryfallowing
past participlethryfallowed
pastthryfallowed

Questions about thryfallow

What is thryfallow the alternative form of?
Thryfallow is the alternative form of trifallow.

Words near thryfallow in the dictionary

  1. thruv
  2. thruway
  3. thruways
  4. Thruxton
  5. Thrybergh
  6. thryfallow
  7. thryfallowed
  8. thryfallowing
  9. thryfallows
  10. Thrymr
  11. thrymsa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thryfallow (page history and authors); trifallow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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