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old field

noun

  1. land no longer under cultivation because the fertility of the soil has been exhausted.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of old field1

An Americanism dating back to 1625–35

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Example Sentences

In the meantime he had got, and been glad to get, a subordinate post in his old field.

This gave her heart, and she went on more swiftly, till she reached a kitchen where an old field mouse was baking a cake.

Is it not better to find new values in the old field than to pursue superficial values in a succession of new fields?

They were engaging the batteries at Camp Chalmette, the old field of Jackson's renown.

After resting a few hours we were formed in line of battle across an old field with only Lowry's brigade on our left.

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