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Definition of Fieldsmen
1. fieldsman [n] - See also: fieldsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fieldsmen
Literary usage of Fieldsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"It is the duty of the fieldsmen to save as many runs as possible, and to do this
they should not only watch ... The positions of the fieldsmen vary with the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"And here a digression is necessary to explain the positions of the fieldsmen :
their individual duties are explained later on, but it may be premised for ..."
3. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"We do order the fieldsmen and empower them [to set] 8 horse commons and no more,
and they are to set to every husbandman that hath most need one apiece, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"The "ten fieldsmen precipitating themselves in pursuit of the ball when ...
Even such headlong zeal on the part of two fieldsmen only, with their eye on the ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1891)
"And they would do it on the old plan, which was common wicket than they stand
now, and by having four fieldsmen deep out North, South, East, and West, ..."
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