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trifallow

trifallow verb: to plough (land) the third time before sowing.

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 trifallow

third-person singular presenttrifallows
present participletrifallowing
past participletrifallowed
pasttrifallowed
alternative formthryfallow
alternative formthrifallow

Questions about trifallow

What does trifallow mean?
Trifallow means to plough (land) the third time before sowing.
What part of speech is trifallow?
Trifallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of trifallow?
The past tense of trifallow is trifallowed.

Words near trifallow in the dictionary

  1. trifaceted
  2. trifacial
  3. trifacials
  4. trifactor
  5. trifactorial
  6. trifallow
  7. trifallowed
  8. trifallowing
  9. trifallows
  10. trifan
  11. trifans

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