War and Peace vocabulary

The wagons were to begin carting manure earlier, so as to get all done before the early mowing. And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying fallow. And the mowing to be all done by hired labor, not on half-profits.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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the poorer men-at-arms and cottars set up camp on a fallow field below the stream that fed the castle’s loch.