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Field artillery   /fild ɑrtˈɪləri/   Listen
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field  n.  
1.
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
2.
A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. "Fields which promise corn and wine."
3.
A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. "In this glorious and well-foughten field." "What though the field be lost?"
4.
An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.:
(a)
Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
(b)
The space covered by an optical instrument at one view; as, wide-field binoculars. "Without covering, save yon field of stars." "Ask of yonder argent fields above."
5.
(Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it.
6.
An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. "Afforded a clear field for moral experiments."
7.
(Sports) An open, usually flat, piece of land on which a sports contest is played; a playing field; as, a football field; a baseball field.
Synonyms: playing field, athletic field, playing area.
8.
Specifically: (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; called also outfield.
9.
A geographic region (land or sea) which has some notable feature, activity or valuable resource; as, the diamond fields of South Africa; an oil field; a gold field; an ice field.
10.
A facility having an airstrip where airplanes can take off and land; an airfield.
Synonyms: airfield, landing field, flying field, aerodrome.
11.
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
12.
A branch of knowledge or sphere of activity; especially, a learned or professional discipline; as, she's an expert in the field of geology; in what field did she get her doctorate?; they are the top company in the field of entertainment.
Synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, branch of knowledge. Note: Within the master text files of this electronic dictionary, where a word is used in a specific sense in some specialized field of knowledge, that field is indicated by the tags: () preceding that sense of the word.
13.
A location, usually outdoors, away from a studio or office or library or laboratory, where practical work is done or data is collected; as, anthropologists do much of their work in the field; the paleontologist is in the field collecting specimens. Usually used in the phrase in the field.
14.
(Physics) The influence of a physical object, such as an electrically charged body, which is capable of exerting force on objects at a distance; also, the region of space over which such an influence is effective; as, the earth's gravitational field; an electrical field; a magnetic field; a force field.
15.
(Math.) A set of elements within which operations can be defined analagous to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the real numbers; within such a set of elements addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; a commutative division ring; as, the set of all rational numbers is a field. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc.
Coal field (Geol.) See under Coal.
Field artillery, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army.
Field basil (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family (Calamintha Acinos); called also basil thyme.
Field colors (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors.
Field cricket (Zool.), a large European cricket (Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes.
Field day.
(a)
A day in the fields.
(b)
(Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions.
(c)
A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day.
Field driver, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound.
Field duck (Zool.), the little bustard (Otis tetrax), found in Southern Europe.
Field glass. (Optics)
(a)
A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass.
(b)
A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws.
(c)
See Field lens.
Field lark. (Zool.)
(a)
The skylark.
(b)
The tree pipit.
Field lens (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; called also field glass.
Field madder (Bot.), a plant (Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing.
Field marshal (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies.
Field officer (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general.
Field officer's court (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts.
Field plover (Zool.), the black-bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda).
Field spaniel (Zool.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game.
Field sparrow. (Zool.)
(a)
A small American sparrow (Spizella pusilla).
(b)
The hedge sparrow. (Eng.)
Field staff (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun.
Field vole (Zool.), the European meadow mouse.
Field of ice, a large body of floating ice; a pack.
Field of view (or Field), in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen.
Field magnet. see under Magnet.
Magnetic field. See Magnetic.
To back the field, or To bet on the field. See under Back, v. t. To keep the field.
(a)
(Mil.) To continue a campaign.
(b)
To maintain one's ground against all comers.
To lay against the field or To back against the field, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers.
To take the field (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign.





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"Field artillery" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasion of the Jameson incursion, the Transvaal had in readiness extensive parks of the most modern quick-firing Maxims and Nordenfeldts of various calibres, and breech-loading field artillery of the Krupp make. The Orange Free State hurried to their assistance with similar artillery, each burgher armed with a Martini-Henry rifle. Besides all that, there was the dynamite and explosives ...
— Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) - The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked • C. H. Thomas
... men could not follow, or only died as they leaped forward. The French grenadiers, still fighting, swearing, and screaming, were swept back past the point where Kleber stood, hoarse with shouting, black with gunpowder, furious with rage. The last assault on Acre had failed. The French sick, field artillery, and baggage silently defiled that night to the rear. The heavy guns were buried in the sand, and after sixty days of open trenches Napoleon, for the first time in his life, though not for ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... northeast. It is not my country nor my war—yet I feel as if it were both. All my French friends are there, all my neighbors, and any number of English friends will soon be, among them the brother of the sculptor you met at my house last winter and liked so much. He is with the Royal Field Artillery. His case is rather odd. He came back to England in the spring, after six years in the civil service, to join the army. His leave expired just in time for him to reenter the army and see his first active service in this war. Fortunately men seem to take it all ...
— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich
... from the American rifles. A blasting torrent of death poured from the machine guns. The heavy field artillery, that had the range to a dot, tore gaping holes in the serried German ranks. Great lanes opened up in the advancing hosts. The target was broad and there was no need to take aim, for every bullet was bound to ...
— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall
... deepened and made more tender by the sense of common exile. At last the hour came when he was free to follow the imperative call of patriotic duty. He went to Ottawa, saw Sir Sam Hughes, and was offered a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery on the completion of his training at the Royal Military College, at Kingston, Ontario. The last weeks of his training were passed at the military camp of Petewawa on the Ottawa River. There his family was able to meet him ...
— Carry On • Coningsby Dawson
... Watching the Field Artillery firing is very interesting. I went one day with General Johnstone of the New Zealand Artillery to Major Standish's Battery, some distance out on the left, and the observing station was reached through a long sap. It was quite ...
— Five Months at Anzac • Joseph Lievesley Beeston
... inspected, and afterwards asked to have the officers called out. We were presented to him in turn; he spoke a few words to each of us, asking what our corps and service had been. He seemed surprised that we were all Field Artillery men, but probably the composition of the other Canadian units had to do with this. He asked a good many questions about the horses, the men, and particularly about the spirits of the men. Altogether he showed a very ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae
... evenly, "Yes, sir. Five years ago we were both with the marshal in a fracas on the Little Big Horn reservation. Your company was pinned down on a knoll by a battery of field artillery. The Marshal sent me to your relief. We sneaked in, up an arroyo, and were able to get most of ...
— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. Admiral Porter, however, supplied us with a battery of navy-guns of large calibre, and with these, and the field artillery used in the campaign, the siege began. The first thing to do was to get the artillery in batteries where they would occupy commanding positions; then establish the camps, under cover from the fire of the enemy but as near up as possible; ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... with forts of strong profile. The largest of these, Fort Ramsey, on Upton's Hill was armed with twenty-pounder Parrott rifles, and the heavy-artillery troops occupied this work. I had a pair of guns of the same kind and calibre in my mixed battery, and these with my other field artillery were put in the other forts. Lines of infantry trench connected the works and extended right and left, and my four regiments occupied these. [Footnote: Official Records, vol. li. pt. i. pp. 777, 779; vol. xix. pt. ii. p. 176.] A regiment of cavalry (Eighth Illinois, joined later by the Eighth Pennsylvania) ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox


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