Definitions for open-field

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Open-Field is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in open-field (-deefilnop).

Definitions for open-field

noun

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

Examples for open-field

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

One is the use of especially-built houses, and the other is the open-field plan.

It gives us further a clear landmark as regards the use by the Germans of the open-field system of ploughing.

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

Upon what other system can it have been grown than the open-field system?

The open-field arrangement is, I repeat it, no lax or indifferent system, but stringent and highly peculiar.

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

Nor can there be much mystery in the relation of these two forms of open-field husbandry to each other.

And still the open-field system, with the intermixed strips, is quite a prevalent feature of mediaeval husbandry all over Europe.

A relic of the old “open-field” system of agriculture survives in the so-called “Lammas Lands.”

Word Value for open-field
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Words with friends

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