A field in which a summer crop is grown; a field in the summer time (which is characteristically fecund, fertile, etc.).

A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land. Also: a copse. In later use sometimes in the names of such pieces of ground. Cf…

an acre of land held with the requirement to provide a ploughshare annually to the lord of the manor; also as a modifier, designating a quit-rent…

(a) a field or piece of ground on which agricultural labour is carried out (now rare); (b) a sphere of work, an area of activity or responsibility.

(in Ireland) any of a number of small fields or plots of ground adjoining a town or village, usually let for cultivation or pasture; an allotment.

= tath-fold n.

Scottish (Shetland). A field adjacent to a farmhouse or croft, a home field.

†(a) a field associated with a gasworks (in later use frequently in place names) (obsolete); (b) an area of land or seabed underlain by deposits…

land suitable for keeping livestock during the summer (opposed to winter country); spec. (New Zealand) high country land suitable for this use (cf. hi…

a croft or field in which broom grows.

A field adjacent to the farmhouse or grange; a home field.