grainfield
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grainfield
Example Sentences
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First Blood On opening day of the rifle season, Tom and I were hidden in a haystack blind, the grainfield flaring in the sunset, when whitetails danced out to feed.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it takes off from a grainfield, its favorite lunching pad, the wily bird careens like a missile with a faulty guidance system.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the ripe grainfield sown by studio executives, wives, movie stars and pressagents, she may reap 30 or so printable bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is as if somebody were trying to console a weary harvester in a 15th-Century grainfield by hinting that in the 20th Century a mechanical reaper and binder might be invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
And clouds rich as coalmines gathered from the chutes of mountainsides, over the belts of grainfield to boost the corporate climates, and to market each end of the world gyrally.
From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen
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