fallower

A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.

Noun

  1. A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
    • I defy any summer fallower to extirpate the cockle, clovers, wild mustard, and corn sallad, likewise horse-gould, &c. - 1786, William Belcher, Esq., “On Fallowing”, in Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Volume...
    • I reply, there is not a single particle lost, but the earth is constantly enriched by supplies of generative matter from the return of its own exhalations, which restore those vegetative principles and virtues that had...
    • The hay is pressed from the bottom upwards, by the chains winding on the cone and drawing up the fallower. When the bale is secured, there is an arrangement for throwing out of gear, and the fallower drops with its own...

Origin

From fallow + -er.

Forms

fallowers