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Definition of Oldfield
1. Noun. United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946).
Generic synonyms: Automobile Driver, Race Driver, Racer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oldfield
Literary usage of Oldfield
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"ANNE Oldfield. LONG years since, in what was called St. James's Market—swept away
early in the century to make room for Regent Street and Waterloo ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Oldfield had Benjamin Grosvenor, DD [qv], as his assistant at Globe Alley from
1700 till ... In April 1723 Oldfield was made one of the original agents for ..."
3. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1878)
"And that as to the leasehold premises and the personal estate (if any) the same
passed to the legal personal representatives of * 35 Edward Oldfield, ..."
4. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1892)
"Towards the end of his days General John Oldfield wrote a biography of his mother,
... During the Civil War the Oldfield family took the Cavalier side, ..."
5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1902)
"1589}" with his moon and son George Oldfield, who cast in 1663 the two bells at
Bilsthorpe. This use of the paternal stamp is notable for the survival of ..."
6. Lincolnshire Pedigrees by A R (Arthur Roland) Maddison, Arthur Staunton Larken (1903)
"Anthony Oldfield of Metheringham, 1574.^= I Robert Oldfield of ... John Oldfield,
2nd son, sp Mary, coheir, Elizabeth, coheir, mar. ..."
7. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Sir Bernard Burke (1863)
"Philip Oldfield d. in 1616, and was buried In St. Mary*«, Chester, where his
effigy in alabaster still remain« in good preservation. ..."
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