fieldsmann.
/ˈfiːldzmən/, U.S. /ˈfil(d)zmən/ 1.
a. A person responsible for the management of various agricultural matters. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > overseer
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1750 Court Baron Rules & Orders 12 Mar. in Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. 435 For every Cow put or turned into the Common or Cow pasture shall be paid yearly to the Fieldsmen..6d.
1823 J. Scriven Treat. Copyholds II. App. p. cccci If any occupier of lands within this manor shall turn more than two horses upon the common in respect of each yard-land he shall so occupy, he shall pay to the fieldsman the sum of 10s. for each horse exceeding the above stated number.
1855 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 206/2 Not so the sub-stewards, or head yardsman, and head fieldsman.
1914 W. H. Hutton Highways & Byways in Shakespeare's Country viii. 144 What was practically a corporation of fieldsmen..managed the agricultural arrangements of the land... The ‘fieldsmen’ were gradually dying out before the climax of 1852, when the..enclosures were carried out.
1950 H. J. Massingham Curious Traveller xi. 237 The Fields~men, appointed annually by the village, determined the crops of the year, fixed and paid wages, imposed fines for trespass and strayed livestock, [etc.].
b. Chiefly British. A representative of an organization with agricultural interests who deals directly with farmers, growers, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming industries > one engaging in farming industry
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1925 Manch. Guardian 2 Oct. 18/1 The whole result was..influenced, of course, by the opinions, written or verbal, of the fieldsmen of the department, but the huge mass of farmers' reports was of secondary importance.
1959 Times 9 Mar. (Suppl. on Britain's Food) p. vi/5 The ‘fieldsman’—that is, the representative in the field of the quick-freezing firm—selects the fields to be harvested when he has subjected samples to a tenderometer.
1968 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 5 356 I thank..the agriculturalists and fieldsmen of the British Sugar Corporation, who arranged farm plots.
1982 N.Z. Jrnl. Exper. Agric. 10 229/2 The author is a senior fieldsman with the Milk Marketing Board.
1998 Financial Times 6 June 2 Boots was developing its farms and gardens side and so he embarked on the company's seven-year training scheme to become a fieldsman.
2. Cricket and Baseball. A member of the side that is not batting, a fielder.Fieldsman is used in the Laws of Cricket until the 2000 code, in which fielder is preferred.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder
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1772 Noble Game of Cricket (song) in Kentish Gaz. 18-22 Aug. Ye Fieldsmen look sharp.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 152 An uncertain hitter, but a good fieldsman.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 40 The positions of the Fieldsmen are arranged according to efficiency.
1887 Boy's Own Paper 28 May 556/2 The second baseman..has a more onerous post, and must not only be an excellent catch but a smart all-round fieldsman.
1908 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 347/2 Thus it is with the lackadaisical fieldsmen intent on the making, and not the saving, of runs.
1921 P. F. Warner My Cricketing Life xii. 229 He [sc. A. O. Jones] was, indeed, quite exceptional as a fieldsman in any position, but especially in the slips and at short third man.
1950 W. Hammond Cricketers' School iii. 35 Striking out at an innocent-looking ball, I've sent a blinder—dead into the fieldsman's hands.
1970 Ebony June 132/2 They [sc. the Chicago Cubs] still have tough-hitting fieldsmen..and good pitchers.
2001 Competition Sci. Vision Feb. 1622/3 Find the least value of the uniform velocity with which the fieldsman should run so that he may catch the ball before it crossed the boundary line.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > expert
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1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 206 Fieldsmen, (turf) those who make it a rule to give odds against the favorite, or any particular horse; they are considered very knowing.
1840 Era 26 July 540/1 Why should not a fieldsman lay beforehand ‘the flattering unction to his soul’, though ultimately it prove an expensive luxury?
1861 Baily's Monthly Mag. Jan. 202 One of those great pots which so frequently come off at Newmarket, and which have in course of time cleaned out many a fieldsman.
1879 Sporting Gaz. 14 June 589/3 Chancellor's decline in the betting for the same race is attributed to the contents of a telegram..being communicated to some bookmaker, who laid heavily against the winner. If this version be correct, ‘it sarved the fieldsman right’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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