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Definition of Grainfields
1. grainfield [n] - See also: grainfield
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grainfields
Literary usage of Grainfields
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... by passing them on for new orchards and grainfields from country to country;
and also by the accidental carriage of them in his ships and otherwise. ..."
2. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"The first dispute was occasioned by the action of the disciples m plucking ears
of grain and rubbing a) Plucking through the grainfields on a Sabbath of the ..."
3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1907)
"... but this, when tried in the courts, was declared in our favor. The said lands
yield forty pesos as yearly rent. grainfields in Bonga. ..."
4. On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thomas Dowler Murphy (1921)
"... there in the great grainfields stand magnificent oaks, ... gleam by the roadside
or lend to the thickets and grainfields a dash of color. ..."
5. Rhodesia, Past and Present by Stefanus Jacobus Du Toit (1897)
"Ah, we thought, then we have here discovered not only the grainfields of the
ancients, but perhaps also their catacombs ! For nowhere have the burial places ..."
6. Overland Tales by Josephine Woempner Clifford McCrackin (1877)
"Nearer the first rise of the mountain, the view of grainfields, fenced in by the
same dry board fence, would become monotonous were it not for the ..."
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