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单词 field game
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field game
field game n. any game or sport played on a field; (Eton College) a form of football played with a round ball by two teams of eleven players, allowing no use of the hands but employing a scrimmage and an offside rule preventing forward passing; cf. wall-game n. at wall n.1 Compounds 2a.
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1650 Briefe Rel. Some Affaires & Transact. No. 45. 673 Here shall be kept a Banquet in Tents built up in the Field for that purpose; afterwards a Field-game is to be played by persons that are matched.
1798 Sporting Mag. Nov. 87/2 Playinge at the caitche or tennise, archery, palle-malle, and such like other faire and pleasant field-games.
1856 Bradford Observer 24 Apr. 6/5 In our villages and small rural towns, field games will keep the labourer from the public-house.
1874 W. W. Wood Sketches of Eton iii. 36 Those lovers of football who, being in physique like Hamlet, are unable to move with rapidity in the ‘field game’.
1997 A. Barnett This Time vii. 244 ‘Heads down, bully and shove’ is a slogan from the winter-term Field Game played at Eton.
2010 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Mar. 1 Hurling, sometimes called the world's fastest field game.
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