1 gen 1642 anni - faugh

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Fallow. The OED has examples from 1513 and says ‘chiefly Scottish’. In this case as in many others there is good evidence in Yorkshire from an early date: 1390 ‘going between <i>le Northfeld</i> and <i>le Falghfeld</i>’, Yeadon (SW88); 1534 <i>to lye open by the space of the hole yere as a fawghe fylde and unsawn</i>, Skewsby (YRS51/44); 1556 <i>my sone to sawe halfe of the Fawghe</i>, Otley (Th27/75); 1586 <i>one gap on the Banck up to the falgh</i>, Farnley Tyas (DT/179); 1642 <i>When yow see tuppe lambs that are well putte forth, buy such, for well happed sheepe are the best for an hard faugh</i>, Elmswell (DW19). It was also used as a verb meaning to make fallow: 1578 <i>to burne, faughe, rydd, stubbe, hewe and cut downe all manner of woodes growenge within the said close</i>, Cartworth (G-A). Faugh has survived as a minor place-name and Smith has the spelling ‘falgh’ from 1487 (PNWR7/185).

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