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单词 field fight
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field fight
field fight n. a fight in the open, a pitched battle.
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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.
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