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- verb Present participle of
fallow .
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Examples
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Hillary had her work cutout for herself in fallowing Bill to see what he was up to or on for a long period of time and same type goings on for years before this is this what you relate to as experience?
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There are significant incentives for produces to move fast to adjust prices in a competitive environment where their cash balances have increase in real terms fallowing the deflation.
Critique of the Fed in The New Republic - The Austrian Economists 2007
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The method was called fallowing -- the method Huey Dunn had used.
Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl
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This first plowing of ground, or as Husbandmen tearme it, the first ardor, is called fallowing: the second ardor, which we call stirring of ground, or sommer stirring, you shall begin in Iuly, which is of great consequence, for by meanes of it you shall kill all manner of wéedes and thistells that would annoy your
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The term "fallowing" is sometimes applied to the operation of plowing, and sometimes the land is left bare without a crop sometime after plowing; this is called "bare fallowing" the land.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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This practice is called "fallowing," and is very ancient; it is much less common now that crops like mangolds and swedes are grown, which can, if necessary, be hoed all the summer.
Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell
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On this account, it may be too hazardous to resort to this kind of ploughing, in summer, when "fallowing," or ploughing grass land to prepare for wheat.
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McShame is being his usual self on the dark side of life fallowing along in the footsteps of Cheney, Bush, Rush, Hannity, Anal Coulter, Sanford, Ensign, Beck and the list goes on.
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Granddad had been fallowing a buck most of the morning.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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Granddad had been fallowing a buck most of the morning.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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