Word Meanings - THRYFALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.

Related words: (words related to THRYFALLOW)

• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• TRIFALLOW
  To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.
• THIRD
  third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• THIRD-PENNY
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
• THIRD RAIL
  The third rail used in the third-rail system. An electric railway using such a rail.
• SUMMERLINESS
  The quality or state of being like summer. Fuller.
• SUMMERTREE
  A summer. See 2d Summer.
• SUMMERTIDE
  Summer time.
• THIRD-BOROUGH
  An under constable. Shak. Johnson.
• SUMMER
  One who sums; one who casts up an account.
• SUMMERY
  Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.
• THIRD-RAIL SYSTEM
  A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.
• SUMMER-FALLOW
  To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.
• SUMMERSAULT; SUMMERSET
  See SOMERSET
• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• TRANSSUMMER
  See 2
• BREASTSUMMER
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long