open field

noun Football.

any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.

Also called broken field.

Words nearby open field

open drainage, open drop anesthesia, open drop technique, open educational resource, open enrollment, open field, open fire, open flap, open flash, open fracture, open frame

Example sentences from the Web for open-field

In fact, the two land systems, though both using an open-field husbandry, were in their main features radically distinct.

The English Village Community |Frederic Seebohm
It gives us further a clear landmark as regards the use by the Germans of the open-field system of ploughing.

The English Village Community |Frederic Seebohm
The "English Square" is the only open-field military formation of human beings that has ever been known to repulse cavalry.

The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons |William Z. Foster
One is the use of especially-built houses, and the other is the open-field plan.

Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring |Anonymous

The open-field system was hardly first introduced by the Saxons, because we find it also in Wales and Scotland.

The English Village Community |Frederic Seebohm

British Dictionary definitions for open-field

open-field

adjective

(prenominal) medieval history of or denoting the system in which an arable area was divided into unenclosed strips, esp cultivated by different tenants

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

open field

noun Football.

Words nearby open field

Example sentences from the Web for open-field

British Dictionary definitions for open-field

adjective

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

open field

noun Football.

Words nearby open field

Example sentences from the Web for open-field

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