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old field
noun
- land no longer under cultivation because the fertility of the soil has been exhausted.
Word History and Origins
Origin of old field1
Example Sentences
Sassafras, with its mitten-shaped leaves, typically moves into forest clearings and old fields—or an unmowed slope in a cemetery reimagining itself as it reaches its 200th birthday.
In the meantime he had got, and been glad to get, a subordinate post in his old field.
This gave her heart, and she went on more swiftly, till she reached a kitchen where an old field mouse was baking a cake.
Is it not better to find new values in the old field than to pursue superficial values in a succession of new fields?
They were engaging the batteries at Camp Chalmette, the old field of Jackson's renown.
After resting a few hours we were formed in line of battle across an old field with only Lowry's brigade on our left.
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