ˈseed-field
[f. seed n. Cf. G. saatfeld, samenfeld.]
A place wherein seed is sown. Also fig.
| 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Moham. Impost. ii. §70 The wiues of men are as it were the seedfields of the men. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ii, For a speculative man, ‘whose seedfield’, in the sublime words of the Poet, ‘is Time’, no conquest is important but that of new ideas. 1832 ― Remin. (1881) I. 46 Our country was all altered; browsing knowes were become seed-fields. 1865 Kingsley Herew. ix, A folk, poor and savage;..often without cattle or seed-field. |