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fieldling en · NOUN

Etymology

From field + -ling.

Meanings

1. (rare) A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
   • Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood. 1995, Drug addiction and environmental pollution - Page 135
   • She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...] 1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500:

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