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noun Football.

any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.

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Also called broken field.

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How to use open field in a sentence

Instead of spoofing it, Farmer Derek plays it on trombone in an open field.
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It was a prized image in Chicago: the joy of the fat man in the open field.
The Hit Heard Around the World|Rich Cohen|November 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And with a wide-open field in both parties in the race for 2016, those governors used the occasion to make an opening statement.
In State of the State Addresses, Governors Keep Their Eyes on 2016|David Freedlander|January 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In one open field where several vehicles had been clustered, the smell of burning oil and decaying bodies mixed in the dusty air.
U.S. Plane Crash in Libya: Exclusive New Details|Babak Dehghanpisheh|March 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Amelie lives in a rural setting–an open field with cinder-block houses in various stages of construction.
What I Saw in Haiti|Buck Close|January 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The men then were placed in single line in the edge of the brush facing the open field.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
The troop rode up the cross road until the bushes were cleared, and then filed into the open field.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
If a man has hired an ox or sheep and a lion has killed it in the open field, that loss is for its owner forsooth.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World|Hammurabi, King of Babylon
The path led for some distance through a thicket of alders and underbrush, from which at length it emerged into an open field.
The Rival Campers|Ruel Perley Smith
Mr. Childers states, that 80 Leicester sheep in the open field, consumed 50 baskets of cut turnips per day, besides oil-cake.
Domestic Animals|Richard L. Allen

British Dictionary definitions for open field

open-field

adjective

(prenominal) medieval history of or denoting the system in which an arable area was divided into unenclosed strips, esp cultivated by different tenants

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