单词 | field fight |
释义 | > as lemmasfield fight field fight n. a fight in the open, a pitched battle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > pitched battle pitched battle?1530 main battle1569 just battle1578 field fight1598 pitch-field1613 pitch battle1673 ranged battle1680 stricken field (rarely battle)1820 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 94 The conduction of our warres now a dayes, doth consist more in surprises, assaults, and batteries, then open field fight. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 129 Rather a competent guard for defence of the campe, then a sufficient power to maintain a field-fight. 1783 W. Huntingdon Skeletons 145 This hope is an anchor in deep waters, but in a field-fight it is an helmet. 1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden xvii. 407 Fairfax and Cromwell [had] followed up their great success at Naseby, in field-fights here, sieges there, and sometimes terrific stormings of Royalist strongholds. 2005 E. J. Hess Field Armies & Fortifications Civil War ii. 31 The battle was an open field fight with no earthworks involved. < as lemmas |
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