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Definition of Outfields
1. outfield [n] - See also: outfield
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outfields
Literary usage of Outfields
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Caledonia: Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, from by George Chalmers (1894)
"Three crops of oats, and sometimes more were taken from these outfields, ...
Lint was generally sown in the best parts of outfields, especially after it had ..."
2. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1899)
"The farms in our neighbourhood in my grandfather's time were divided into
the "intown" and the "outfields." The former was about a third of the farm around ..."
3. Balmerino and Its Abbey: A Parish History with Notices of the Adjacent District by James Campbell (1899)
"... outfields of Byres ; and half an acre in Cultra. (Two houses, etc., at Byres
were acquired by Balmerino from Birkhill in the early part of the present ..."
4. A General View of the Agriculture of Aberdeenshire: Drawn Up Under the by George Skene Keith (1811)
"... the inclemency of the -.ea- |on, could not overtake the ploughing of his poor
lend. 4thly. The inferior land, besides the outfields, was denominated ..."
5. Notes and Sketches [i]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth by William Alexander (1877)
"Our outfields," he says, " when they have been grass four or five years, are
plowed up, and letting them lie a summer thus ploughed, we plow them over again ..."
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