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old field
a. Land cultivated of old; esp., in U.S., cultivated by the Indians, before the coming of the white men.
1635in Amer. Legal Rec. (Amer. Hist. Soc.) (1954) VII. 31 Mr. John wilkins made suit..for a neck of land..boundeth..northerly on Cugleyes ould field. 1656Rec. of Braintree, Mass. (1886) 7 A highway layed out in the old feild for goodman Hoydin to bring his corne out. 1765J. Bartram Jrnl. 28 Dec. in Stork Acc. E. Florida (1766) 12 Landed at Mount-Royal, where there are 50 acres of cleared old fields. 1791W. Bartram Travels 54 Their old field and planting land extend up and down the river. 1839Southern Lit. Messenger V. 113/1 First..no such foreigner has the faintest idea of what an old-field is. 1859Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. III. 452 In 1840 I became possessed of the tract of land containing what was called the ‘old field’. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 427. 1905 Forestry Bureau Bull. (U.S.) No. 63, 5 The life history of second-growth white pine on old fields and pastures in New England. 1938G. H. Collingwood in Amer. Forests Sept. 417 Pure stands of young Virginia pine frequently follow on old fields when agriculture is abandoned.
b. attrib. in old-field birch, one of several North American birches, esp. the white birch, Betula populifolia; old-field lark, the field-lark; old-field mouse, a white-footed, pale brown mouse, Peromyscus polionotus, found in sandy regions of the south-eastern U.S.A.; old-field pine, one of several North American pines, esp. the loblolly pine, Pinus tæda.
1810F. A. Michaux Hist. Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 26 White birch [ou] *Old field birch (Bouleau des terreins secs.). 1832D. J. Browne Sylva Amer. 123 In the state of Maine,..[the name] Old Field Birch is..employed to distinguish the white birch from the canoe birch. 1946W. D. Brush in Amer. Forests Sept. 431 This accounts for the tree quickly taking possession of burned-over, cutover and abandoned land, which has given it the name ‘oldfield birch’.
1921A. H. Howell in N. Amer. Fauna XLV. 44 The little *old-field mouse occurs rather commonly in suitable situations throughout the eastern, central, and northeastern parts of the State [of Alabama]. 1936Jrnl. Mammalogy XVII. 420 A number of breeding stocks of old-field mice..were collected in parts of Alabama and Florida. 1971Nature 12 Nov. 102/2 Crosses of Peromyscus maniculatus, the deermouse, and P. polionotus, the oldfield mouse,..showed that placental weights of foetuses..differed significantly from each other.
1797B. Hawkins Let. 23 Feb. (1916) 89 The whole grown up with *old field pine, some of them a foot and a half diameter. 1841Southern Lit. Messenger VII. 452/1 The old-field pine had not intruded so largely on the domain of the plough⁓man and reaper. 1856Olmsted Slave States 89 Cannot some Yankee contrive a method of concentrating some of the valuable properties of this old-field pine, so that they may be profitably brought into use in more cultivated regions? 1894J. M. Coulter Bot. W. Texas III. 554 Pinus Taeda... Extending from the Gulf States to the valley of the Colorado. ‘Loblolly pine.’ ‘Old-field pine.’ 1967N. T. Mirov Genus Pinus ii. 118 This tendency of pines to occupy newly exposed ground can be observed even now in abandoned fields (‘old field pine’ is the common name for P. tæda).
c. old-field colt, old field ground, old field plum, old field preacher, old field school, old field school-master, old field scrub.
1835Southern Lit. Messenger I. 582, I could..only remember that every untrimmed *old field colt was a regular descendant of Eclipse.
1772in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1919) XIV. 278 Our corn..is very good at all the quarters, some of this *old field ground..excepted.
1887Harper's Mag. Sept. 588/2 She been goin' out..betewen times, and getherin' *old-field plums.
1904T. Watson Bethany ii. iii. 168 The tremendous emphasis with which the *old field preacher uttered the words.
1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 26 He sold his horse and cart too, and then turned into keepin an *old-field school. 1853J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 125 The master of the old field school was one of the regular faculty. 1948E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 172 Schools{ddd}located on worn-out cultivated areas, were called ‘old field’ schools.
1853J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 106 He had been an *old-field schoolmaster.
1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 12, I bet you my horse Talleyrand..against an *old field scrub. |