old fieldn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊl(d) fiːld/, U.S.

/ˈoʊl(d) ˈfild/

Forms: see old adj. and field n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., field n.¹

Etymology: < old adj. + field n.¹ Compare old land n.

Now U.S.

Originally: (a piece of) land which has been under cultivation for a long time. Later (also): land exhausted through cultivation; land cultivated by North American Indians before the arrival of Europeans; a piece of such land.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > land cultivated of old

old fieldOE

old land1715

OE Bounds (Sawyer 786) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 226 Of ðæm stapole ofer þone ealdan feld.

OE Bounds (Sawyer 201) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 118 Of ðæm aldan felda west reht on gearnec.

1600 in J. G. de T. Mandley Portmote Rec. Salford (1902) I. 22 Noe burges or any other psone whatsoever haueinge growndes w'hin the Midle Fyeldes or Highe Ould Fyeld [etc.].

1656 Rec. of Braintree, Mass. (1886) 7 A highway layed out in the old feild for goodman Hoydin to bring his corne out.

1761 Descr. S. Carolina 6 There are dispersed up and down the Country several large Indian old fields, which are lands that have been cleared by the Indians, and now remain just as they left them.

1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 151 [Persimmons grow] in old fields, as they term such places where the timber has been cut down, the land worn out, impoverished, or tired with culture, and young trees have not sprung up.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 54 Their old field and planting land extend up and down the river.

1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 72 Scarlet Strawberry. (Fragaria vesca.) Grows in the upper country: in Indian old fields.

1844 B. C. Howard Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 120 I will describe the boundaries of our land, it begins on the Ohio..and extends..eastwardly..then south, &c., crossing the Tennessee River at the Chickasaw old field.

1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 643/1 All through the Cape, too, are barren stretches of ‘old fields’, crossed by decayed rail fences or stone walls gray with moss.

1905 S. N. Spring Natural Replacement White Pine New Eng. (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 63) 5 The life history of second-growth white pine on old fields and pastures in New England.

1938 G. H. Collingwood in Amer. Forests Sept. 417 Pure stands of young Virginia pine frequently follow on old fields when agriculture is abandoned.

1956 Amer. Law Rep. 2nd Ser. 46 1152 Uninclosed land, whether woodland or lands reclaimed and put to the uses of agriculture and later left open as ‘old fields’.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways viii. xii. 340 People—outlanders—get upset because we cut trees. They don't see that those trees are growin' in an old field.

Compounds

C1.

old-field colt n.

ΚΠ

1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. xx. 207 The fact is..this pen you made me is like an old field-colt, a little skittish in the breakin.

1894 Cent. Mag. Feb. 561/2 They ain't never any tellin' what's in one o' these here wild old-field colts, special sech a ontimely-lookin' one as this here.

1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 49 Catch colt, a Western euphemism for an illegitimate child, called an old-field colt and a woods colt in other regions.

† old-field ground n. Obsolete

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1772 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1919) 14 278 Our corn..is very good at all the quarters, some of this old field ground..excepted.

old-field plum n.

ΚΠ

1887 Harper's Mag. Sept. 588/2 She been goin' out..between times, and getherin' old-field plums.

old-field scrub n.

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1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 12 I bet you my horse Talleyrand..against an old field scrub.

C2.

old-field lark n. U.S. regional a meadow pipit; = meadowlark n. (b) at meadow n. Compounds 2.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark)

titlingc1550

linget1552

lark1602

chit1610

meadowlark1611

cucknel1655

titlark1666

cheeper1684

moss-cheeper1684

old-field lark1805

ling-bird1814

tit-pipit1817

meadow pipit1825

meadow titling1828

furze-lark1854

peep1859

1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 12 Apr. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 28 I saw the Magpie in pa[i]rs, flocks of Grouse, the old Field lark & Crows.

1861 Southern Literary Messenger 33 30/2 The piercing note of crested red-birds and mellifluous old-field larks swell the concert.

1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 183 A term which comes into common names of animals and plants is ‘old fields’. Thus we have ‘old field pine’ (Pinus taeda), ‘old field mouse’ (Peromyscus subgriseus), ‘old field lark’ (meadow lark) ‘old field-plover’ (black-bellied plover).

old-field mouse n. a white-footed pale brown deer mouse, Peromyscus polionotus, found in sandy regions of the south-eastern U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Peromyscus (deer-mouse)

white-footed mouse1827

deer-mouse1840

vesper mouse1859

old-field mouse1898

rock mouse1904

whitefoot1912

1898 Science 19 Aug. 215/2 It, therefore, becomes necessary to give the Georgia old field mouse a new name and I propose for it Peromyscus subgriseus baliolus.

1971 Nature 12 Nov. 102/2 Crosses of Peromyscus maniculatus, the deermouse, and P. polionotus, the oldfield mouse,..showed that placental weights of foetuses..differed significantly from each other.

old field pine n. any of several pines of the southern U.S., esp. the loblolly pine, Pinus taeda.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies

pine treeeOE

pineOE

pine-nut treec1330

pineapplec1390

pineapple treea1398

mountain pine1597

pine1597

mountain pine1601

frankincense1611

rosin flower?1611

black pine1683

Scotch pine1706

yellow pine1709

Jersey pine1743

loblolly pine1760

mugoa1768

Scots pine1774

Scotch fir1777

arrow plant1779

scrub pine1791

Georgia pine1796

old field pine1797

tamarack1805

grey pine1810

pond pine1810

New Jersey pine1818

loblolly1819

Corsican pine1824

celery-top pine1827

toatoa1831

heavy-wooded pine1836

nut pine1845

celery pine1851

celery-topped pine1851

sugar-pine1853

western white pine1857

Jeffrey1858

Korean pine1858

lodge-pole pine1859

jack pine1863

whitebark pine1864

twisted pine1866

Monterey pine1868

tanekaha1875

chir1882

slash-pine1882

celery-leaved pine1883

knee-pine1884

knobcone pine1884

matsu1884

meadow pine1884

Alaska pine1890

limber pine1901

bristlecone pine1908

o-matsu1916

insignis1920

radiata1953

1797 B. Hawkins Let. 23 Feb. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 89 The whole grown up with old field pine, some of them a foot and a half diameter.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 89 Cannot some Yankee contrive a method of concentrating some of the valuable properties of this old-field pine, so that they may be profitably brought into use in more cultivated regions?

1998 Amer. Midland Naturalist 140 80 This distinction is drawn at stands with individuals over 100 yr, representing the typical point at which the transition from dominance by old-field pine to hardwoods occurs.

old-field school n. U.S. (now historical) an elementary school built on land previously used for agriculture, esp. in Southern states before the American Civil War (1861–5).

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1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) ii. 10 The first place of education to which George was ever sent, was a little ‘old field school’.

1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 125 The master of the old field school was one of the regular faculty.

a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Hist. & Lit. (1902) i. vi. 229 His education, obtained in an ‘old-field’ school, consisted of little more than the ‘three R's’.

1973 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 59 989 The college..quickly sank to the level of an old-field school, and in 1871 it simply ceased to function.

old-field schoolmaster n. U.S. (now historical) a schoolmaster at an old-field school.

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1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Apr. 374/2 That ‘Old Field Schoolmaster’ will have many grievous sins to answer for in his day of accounts. May the justice which shall be measured unto him be more lenient than any he meted out to us.

1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 106 He had been an old-field schoolmaster.

1889 C. E. Jones Educ. in Georgia (U.S. Bureau Educ. Circ. Information No. 4) 24 There was no examining of teachers,..‘old field schoolmasters’,..they werer called.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	old field
释义	old fieldn. Brit. /ˈəʊl(d) fiːld/, U.S. /ˈoʊl(d) ˈfild/ Forms: see old adj. and field n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., field n.¹ Etymology: < old adj. + field n.¹ Compare old land n. Now U.S. Originally: (a piece of) land which has been under cultivation for a long time. Later (also): land exhausted through cultivation; land cultivated by North American Indians before the arrival of Europeans; a piece of such land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land > land cultivated of old old fieldOE old land1715 OE Bounds (Sawyer 786) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 226 Of ðæm stapole ofer þone ealdan feld. OE Bounds (Sawyer 201) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 118 Of ðæm aldan felda west reht on gearnec. 1600 in J. G. de T. Mandley Portmote Rec. Salford (1902) I. 22 Noe burges or any other psone whatsoever haueinge growndes w'hin the Midle Fyeldes or Highe Ould Fyeld [etc.]. 1656 Rec. of Braintree, Mass. (1886) 7 A highway layed out in the old feild for goodman Hoydin to bring his corne out. 1761 Descr. S. Carolina 6 There are dispersed up and down the Country several large Indian old fields, which are lands that have been cleared by the Indians, and now remain just as they left them. 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 151 [Persimmons grow] in old fields, as they term such places where the timber has been cut down, the land worn out, impoverished, or tired with culture, and young trees have not sprung up. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 54 Their old field and planting land extend up and down the river. 1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 72 Scarlet Strawberry. (Fragaria vesca.) Grows in the upper country: in Indian old fields. 1844 B. C. Howard Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 120 I will describe the boundaries of our land, it begins on the Ohio..and extends..eastwardly..then south, &c., crossing the Tennessee River at the Chickasaw old field. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 643/1 All through the Cape, too, are barren stretches of ‘old fields’, crossed by decayed rail fences or stone walls gray with moss. 1905 S. N. Spring Natural Replacement White Pine New Eng. (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 63) 5 The life history of second-growth white pine on old fields and pastures in New England. 1938 G. H. Collingwood in Amer. Forests Sept. 417 Pure stands of young Virginia pine frequently follow on old fields when agriculture is abandoned. 1956 Amer. Law Rep. 2nd Ser. 46 1152 Uninclosed land, whether woodland or lands reclaimed and put to the uses of agriculture and later left open as ‘old fields’. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways viii. xii. 340 People—outlanders—get upset because we cut trees. They don't see that those trees are growin' in an old field. Compounds C1. old-field colt n. ΚΠ 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. xx. 207 The fact is..this pen you made me is like an old field-colt, a little skittish in the breakin. 1894 Cent. Mag. Feb. 561/2 They ain't never any tellin' what's in one o' these here wild old-field colts, special sech a ontimely-lookin' one as this here. 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 49 Catch colt, a Western euphemism for an illegitimate child, called an old-field colt and a woods colt in other regions. † old-field ground n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1772 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1919) 14 278 Our corn..is very good at all the quarters, some of this old field ground..excepted. old-field plum n. ΚΠ 1887 Harper's Mag. Sept. 588/2 She been goin' out..between times, and getherin' old-field plums. old-field scrub n. ΚΠ 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 12 I bet you my horse Talleyrand..against an old field scrub. C2. old-field lark n. U.S. regional a meadow pipit; = meadowlark n. (b) at meadow n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark) titlingc1550 linget1552 lark1602 chit1610 meadowlark1611 cucknel1655 titlark1666 cheeper1684 moss-cheeper1684 old-field lark1805 ling-bird1814 tit-pipit1817 meadow pipit1825 meadow titling1828 furze-lark1854 peep1859 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 12 Apr. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 28 I saw the Magpie in pa[i]rs, flocks of Grouse, the old Field lark & Crows. 1861 Southern Literary Messenger 33 30/2 The piercing note of crested red-birds and mellifluous old-field larks swell the concert. 1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 183 A term which comes into common names of animals and plants is ‘old fields’. Thus we have ‘old field pine’ (Pinus taeda), ‘old field mouse’ (Peromyscus subgriseus), ‘old field lark’ (meadow lark) ‘old field-plover’ (black-bellied plover). old-field mouse n. a white-footed pale brown deer mouse, Peromyscus polionotus, found in sandy regions of the south-eastern U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Peromyscus (deer-mouse) white-footed mouse1827 deer-mouse1840 vesper mouse1859 old-field mouse1898 rock mouse1904 whitefoot1912 1898 Science 19 Aug. 215/2 It, therefore, becomes necessary to give the Georgia old field mouse a new name and I propose for it Peromyscus subgriseus baliolus. 1971 Nature 12 Nov. 102/2 Crosses of Peromyscus maniculatus, the deermouse, and P. polionotus, the oldfield mouse,..showed that placental weights of foetuses..differed significantly from each other. old field pine n. any of several pines of the southern U.S., esp. the loblolly pine, Pinus taeda. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies pine treeeOE pineOE pine-nut treec1330 pineapplec1390 pineapple treea1398 mountain pine1597 pine1597 mountain pine1601 frankincense1611 rosin flower?1611 black pine1683 Scotch pine1706 yellow pine1709 Jersey pine1743 loblolly pine1760 mugoa1768 Scots pine1774 Scotch fir1777 arrow plant1779 scrub pine1791 Georgia pine1796 old field pine1797 tamarack1805 grey pine1810 pond pine1810 New Jersey pine1818 loblolly1819 Corsican pine1824 celery-top pine1827 toatoa1831 heavy-wooded pine1836 nut pine1845 celery pine1851 celery-topped pine1851 sugar-pine1853 western white pine1857 Jeffrey1858 Korean pine1858 lodge-pole pine1859 jack pine1863 whitebark pine1864 twisted pine1866 Monterey pine1868 tanekaha1875 chir1882 slash-pine1882 celery-leaved pine1883 knee-pine1884 knobcone pine1884 matsu1884 meadow pine1884 Alaska pine1890 limber pine1901 bristlecone pine1908 o-matsu1916 insignis1920 radiata1953 1797 B. Hawkins Let. 23 Feb. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 89 The whole grown up with old field pine, some of them a foot and a half diameter. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 89 Cannot some Yankee contrive a method of concentrating some of the valuable properties of this old-field pine, so that they may be profitably brought into use in more cultivated regions? 1998 Amer. Midland Naturalist 140 80 This distinction is drawn at stands with individuals over 100 yr, representing the typical point at which the transition from dominance by old-field pine to hardwoods occurs. old-field school n. U.S. (now historical) an elementary school built on land previously used for agriculture, esp. in Southern states before the American Civil War (1861–5). ΚΠ 1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) ii. 10 The first place of education to which George was ever sent, was a little ‘old field school’. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 125 The master of the old field school was one of the regular faculty. a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Hist. & Lit. (1902) i. vi. 229 His education, obtained in an ‘old-field’ school, consisted of little more than the ‘three R's’. 1973 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 59 989 The college..quickly sank to the level of an old-field school, and in 1871 it simply ceased to function. old-field schoolmaster n. U.S. (now historical) a schoolmaster at an old-field school. ΚΠ 1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Apr. 374/2 That ‘Old Field Schoolmaster’ will have many grievous sins to answer for in his day of accounts. May the justice which shall be measured unto him be more lenient than any he meted out to us. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 106 He had been an old-field schoolmaster. 1889 C. E. Jones Educ. in Georgia (U.S. Bureau Educ. Circ. Information No. 4) 24 There was no examining of teachers,..‘old field schoolmasters’,..they werer called. 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