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Definition of Mine field
1. Noun. A tract of land containing explosive mines.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mine Field
Literary usage of Mine field
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
"THE NORTH SEA mine field (1914) THE Secretary of the Admiralty communicates the
following: "The German policy of mine-laying,1 combined with their submarine ..."
2. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"LOST ON A SEAPLANE AND SET ADRIFT IN A MINE-FIELD Adventures on the North ...
Here is the story of one of them—two men drifting through a mine-field on a ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The outer mine field is so important that there will be a serious ... Moreover,
since the attack may be directed on several points of the mine field at the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"No mine field is complete, or can ever be thoroughly effective, unless it is
protected by rapid-fire guns. It is possible for small boats, launches, etc., ..."
5. Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House by Walter Inglewood Smith (1906)
"We have on our map the positions of the mines, and in order to get that plotted
position we must take her beyond our mine field and as she passes beyond, ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The position of the mines when laid is marked on a special chart, on which the
track of ships crossing the mine field can also be plotted. ..."
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