(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

(agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.

The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

(transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

(of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

(of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

(figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.

(color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.