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ˈseed-field
[f. seed n. Cf. G. saatfeld, samenfeld.]
A place wherein seed is sown. Also fig.
1615W. Bedwell tr. Moham. Impost. ii. §70 The wiues of men are as it were the seedfields of the men. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ii, For a speculative man, ‘whose seedfield’, in the sublime words of the Poet, ‘is Time’, no conquest is important but that of new ideas. 1832― Remin. (1881) I. 46 Our country was all altered; browsing knowes were become seed-fields. 1865Kingsley Herew. ix, A folk, poor and savage;..often without cattle or seed-field. |