单词 | fieldwards |
释义 | fieldwardsn.adv. = fieldward n. Obsolete. rare.With quot. 1656 compare quot. 1656 at fieldward n., which comes from a different version of the same piece of text. ΚΠ 1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys 167 Towards the Town, it is of an easie accesse, to the fieldwards more difficult. B. adv. = fieldward adv. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adverb] > enclose land > in or to fields fieldward1790 fieldwards1838 1838 C. Webbe Man about Town I. 83 The scent..visits it in the coolness of the evenings in June, and sets the thoughts of its town-prisoned people fieldwards. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 277 My commonest walk was fieldwards. 1903 S. F. Bullock Squireen 64 When, in a while, all things being to his mind in the yard and the men gone fieldwards, he stamped into breakfast, his humour had lightened. 1915 S. H. M. Byers Bells of Capistrano He wandered fieldwards past the Indians' cabins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adv.1656 |
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