rag-fallow, -faugh Sc.
[The sense of rag is not clear.]
(See quots.) So rag-fallowing.
| 1793–5 G. Robertson Agric. Surv. Mid. Lothian 3 (Jam.) Rag-fauch is ground ploughed up, and prepared for wheat, that has been two years in grass, and generally gets three furrows. 1805 R. Somerville Agric. Surv. E. Lothian 110 Rag-fallow..consists in ploughing the clover down immediately after the first cutting. 1855 Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) II. 266/1 A kind of fallowing, technically named rag-fallowing,..consists in pulverising lea ground in summer as a preparation for wheat in autumn. |