Home › Words › F › fallowerfallowerfallower means A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.EtymologyFrom fallow + -er.nounA person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.e.g.“I defy any summer fallower to extirpate the cockle, clovers, wild mustard, and corn sallad, likewise horse-gould, &c.” — 1786, William Belcher, Esq., “On Fallowing”, in Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Volume 6:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).