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Definition of Backfields
1. backfield [n] - See also: backfield
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backfields
Literary usage of Backfields
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trials of the Persons Concerned in the Late Riots, Before Chief Justice by Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Great Britain, John Bernard Bosanquet, William Elias Taunton (1832)
"I know Mr. Watkins the smith: he lives in Cherry-lane, the place I saw the
prisoner ; the prisoner worked for his master in the backfields ; he worked for ..."
2. A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the by Great Britain (1866)
"... the Point opposite York Street, to a Street called backfields, and widening
that Part of the Street called backfields which runs towards Stokes Croft. ..."
3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1818)
"Accordingly the THOUSANDS ofthat Town assembled upon a spacious plain near
West-street, backfields, ..."
4. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1846)
"Pope, John, formerly of backfields, Bristol, then of Horfield, Gloucester, then
of Montpelier, Bristol, Lime Borner, &c. ..."
5. Football for Public and Player by Herbert M. Reed (1913)
"... greater ability in turning at the right point and making their direct run into
the tackler count for more than the backfields of any other university, ..."
6. The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century by John Latimer (1893)
"... in the backfields, Stoke's Croft, which had just been erected on the tontine
principle by 95 citizens contributing £30 each, ..."
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