English

Noun

fallower ‎(plural fallowers)

1. A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
   • 1786, William Belcher, Esq., “On Fallowing”, in Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Volume 6:

     I defy any summer fallower to extirpate the cockle, clovers, wild mustard, and corn sallad, likewise horse-gould, &c.

   • 1824, The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 85:

     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 priciples and virtues that had emanated from it. This is as well known to the fallower as to the philospher.

   • 1868, Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Volume 27, Part 1:

     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 weight, and in the same manner is repeated.