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fieldsman|ˈfiːldzmən|
[f. field n. + man.]
a. Cricket. One of the side which is in the field; a fielder.
b. (See quot. 1823.)
1767R. Cotton Cricket Song ix. in F. S. Ashley-Cooper Hambledon Cricket Chron. (1924) 184 Ye Fieldsmen look sharp. 1823‘Ion Bee’ Slang 206 Fieldsmen (turf) — those who make it a rule to give odds against the favorite, or any particular horse; they are considered very knowing. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 176 An uncertain hitter, but a good fieldsman. 1850‘Bat’ Crick. Man. 40 The positions of the Fieldsmen are arranged according to efficiency. 1881Daily News 9 July 2 A possible catch to a more plucky fieldsman.
c. A person responsible for the management of various agricultural matters (see quots.).
1750Court Baron Rules & Orders 12 Mar. in Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. 435 For every Cow put or turned into the Common or Cow pasture shall be paid yearly to the Fields⁓men..6d. 1914W. H. Hutton Highways & Byways in Shakespeare's Country viii. 144 Weston-sub-Edge... Though the lord of the manor seems for all practical purposes to have died out there at the Reformation, the old open field system of husbandry continued. What was practically a corporation of fieldsmen (who have been truly described as the aristocracy of the village and ‘did not represent more than one-sixth of the population’) managed the agricultural arrangements of the land... The ‘fieldsmen’ were gradually dying out before the climax of 1852, when the..enclosures were carried out. 1950H. J. Massingham Curious Traveller xi. 237 The Fields⁓men, appointed annually by the village, determined the crops of the year, fixed and paid wages, imposed fines for trespass and strayed livestock, [etc.]. |