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ˈfield-book
1. A book for use in the field.
a. The book in which a land-surveyor notes down the measurements as taken in the field.
1616A. Rathborne Surveyor 136 The order of making of a necessary and fitting Field-booke. 1685Petty Will p. vii, Maps and field-books, the copies of the Downe-survey. 1777Barmby Inclos. Act 9 A proper field book of the said town⁓ship. 1807Hutton Course Math. II. 64 Enter the measures in a field-book.
b. A botanist's or naturalist's book for preserving collected specimens while in the field.
1848W. Gardiner Flora of Forfarshire 56 To preserve good specimens, the collector would require to be provided with a field-book. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §1229 (1855) 659.
2. (See quot.)
1853Lytton My Novel iii. xxix, My great-grandfather kept a Field-Book, in which were entered..the names of all the farmers, and the quantity of land they held. |