field dressingn.
/ˈfiːl(d) ˌdrɛsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfil(d) ˌdrɛsɪŋ/ 1. Agriculture. Manure or other fertilizer spread over or ploughed into a field. Cf. dressing n. 6b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure
fatnessc1420
amendment1483
manure1532
manuring1577
battling1600
dressing1600
worth1609
sucken1615
folding1626
fertilizera1661
sumen1662
recuperativec1679
field dressing1743
top-dressing1744
sweetener1765
settera1793
mendment1798
side dressing1819
substratum1822
manurer1829
liquid manure1837
soil amendment1915
side dress1920
Growmore1944
soil conditioner1952
1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xv. 75 This Field-dressing would be of excellent Use here, as agreeing very well with their Sort of Soil.
1854 New Eng. Farmer Apr. 173/1 Barnyard manure, which I save for field dressing.
1877 J. C. McCoan Egypt as it Is 186 The guano is..employed as a field dressing.
1921 Standard Ref. Work (Standard Educ. Soc.) at Liebig, Justus Pure lime, for instance, fresh from the kiln, is a valuable field dressing in proper quantities.
1987 G. C. Wilken Good Farmers (1990) iii. 43 Leaf litter is particularly valued as field dressing either by itself or mixed with animal manure and urine.
2. A bandage of a type used for dressing a wound on the battlefield.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > type of
field dressing1856
1856 United Service Mag. Sept. 152 How the first field dressings and other appliances may be most readily accessible for immediate use.
1924 Glasgow Herald 8 Apr. 10 Strips of emergency field-dressing gamgee.
1945 Times 14 Dec. 2/4 On reaching the other sowar, whose left thigh had been shattered, he applied a field dressing to his comrade's wound.
2002 Combat & Survival Nov. 18/3 This is a good idea because if either arm is injured your good arm will still be able to access a field dressing.
3. Chiefly North American. The action or process of removing the internal organs of hunted game soon after the kill. Cf. field-dress v.
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1951 Postville (Iowa) Herald 21 Nov. 1/2 The buck weighed 110 pounds after field dressing.
1993 Outdoor Canada Oct. 21/2 (advt.) Totally new concept in blade design!.. ‘The Zipper’ makes field-dressing easier than ever before.
2003 C. Camuto Hunting from Home 303 I worked with my knife to free the organs and entrails from the body cavity, impressed, as I always am, by the intimacy of field-dressing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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